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(10/29/14 4:58am)
According to Inside Higher Ed, the University of Michigan, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin System are now offering programs in competency-based education, a different method of learning which is based on skill level rather than credit hours. The programs are mostly geared toward adult students who have some credits but never earned a degree.
(10/28/14 4:30am)
According to the New York Times, three New York colleges recently agreed to drop questions from their applications which asked “have you ever been arrested or convicted of a felony?” This would include arrests which did not result in convictions and convictions that have been expunged. Upon receiving complaints from the Center for Community Alternatives, New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s office conducted an investigation into 70 colleges in the state, and found St. John’s, Five Towns College and Dowling were the only ones that took such a broad approach to seeking information about applicants’ criminal histories.
(10/27/14 4:51am)
Everybody knew. The football coach knew. The football team’s lead academic counselor knew. A senior associate dean knew. The chair of the faculty and director of the university’s center for ethics knew. They all knew.
(10/24/14 3:49am)
114,911 – number of jobs in Charlottesville, as of late September
(10/23/14 4:46am)
Attorney General Mark Herring recently spoke out in favor of the Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act which is currently before the U.S. Senate. If passed, the law would help prevent human trafficking by requiring greater regulation of “adult services” advertisements on websites. Websites would have to verify the identity of the people posting advertisements for such services and the ages of people who appear in the ads.
(10/22/14 7:14am)
The New York Times’ recent article, “When Women Become Men at Wellesley,” examines the difficult political and social issues women’s colleges are currently tangled in as they attempt to sort out their identities and purposes in a world where gender is recognized as a more fluid concept.
(10/21/14 4:25am)
The U.S. Department of Education published the final rules for executing changes to the Clery Act Monday. These changes have been discussed by the department since June, and now that they have been finalized, will go into effect July 2015, though universities will be encouraged to make a “good faith effort” to follow the rules even before that date.
(10/20/14 5:08am)
During its meeting last week, the Honor Committee discussed a potential program which would allow students to pledge on their honor to pay for their food at Corner restaurants at a later date if they forgot their money. The Committee would pay back the merchant if the students fail to pay.
(10/17/14 6:36am)
Rejection letters from Navarro College have sparked outrage because they denied admission to Nigerian students on the basis of being from a country with confirmed Ebola cases. Copies of the letters have circulated on social media, and the college has released a statement which seems to offer an alternative explanation of why the students were rejected — that the college’s current focus for international recruiting is not in Africa, but rather in China and Indonesia. The statement does not explicitly say the presence of Ebola should not have been used as grounds for rejection, but does say “We apologize for any misinformation that may have been shared with students.”
(10/16/14 3:36am)
A feminist activist who was scheduled to speak at the Utah State University canceled her appearance after the university informed her they could not prohibit concealed weapons at the event. Anita Sarkeesian has focused her work on the way women are portrayed in video games, and the university received numerous threats against her after her speech was announced. One email said “This will be the deadliest school shooting in American history and I’m giving you a chance to stop it” and was signed by someone using the name Marc Lepine, who perpetrated a mass shooting in Montreal in 1989.
(10/15/14 5:54am)
University of California, San Francisco is offering an online class on abortion care which already has 3,000 people registered. The class is the first of its kind offered by a U.S. school. The creator and instructor of the course, Jody Steinauer, an associate professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF, said the course is meant to make up for deficiencies in abortion care instruction in medical school, and even OB/GYN residency.
(10/10/14 4:58am)
Faculty at Princeton recently voted to reverse a grade deflation policy which was established at the school 10 years ago. Dean of Princeton’s undergraduate college Valerie A. Smith said the committee which recommended the policy be repealed “believes that the concept of consistent standards has been interpreted primarily to mean consistent grades,” but that “meaningful standards should be course- and discipline-specific.”
(10/09/14 5:15am)
Controversy has erupted at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania over a Confederate flag hung by two students in their dorm room. The students did remove the flag, but the issue has not quieted down. Many students are criticizing the college for its silence and inaction, have staged protests, and are demanding Bryn Mawr ban the flag from its campus.
(10/08/14 5:01am)
University of Michigan football coach Brady Hoke and athletic director Dave Brandon have come under fire after Michigan quarterback Shane Morris continued to play in a game even after exhibiting signs of a concussion. According to Inside Higher Ed, thousands of students have signed a petition demanding these athletic officials be fired. It is not clear what the University of Michigan’s response will be, but this incident has revived a debate about whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association should regulate how coaches handle injuries.
(10/07/14 5:06am)
The Honor Committee is considering revising its policies which deal with “bad debt” — which could be anything from bad checks to failure to pay rent. In recent years, the Committee has seen an increased number of bad debt cases. Committee Chair Nicholas Hine said the Committee wants to avoid a situation in which landlords use the threat of an honor charge to pressure tenants to pay rent, particularly when rent may be legitimately disputed.
(10/06/14 5:13am)
On Sunday, about 20 students participated in the annual Sleepout for the Homeless, sponsored by the Jewish Social Justice Council. Data collected last year estimated about 195 people were living in shelters in Charlottesville, and about 230 children in the city and surrounding area were identified as homeless.
(10/03/14 4:51am)
The University recently announced that students who have the Aetna Student Health insurance plan will be allowed to add an opposite- or same-sex partner. More graduate students than undergraduates will likely take advantage of the option, but it still will allow people who previously did not have health care to access it.
(10/02/14 6:32am)
According to the New York Times, the University System of Georgia has enacted a smoking ban which will apply to all the campuses of their 31 public colleges and universities. The university system’s Vice Chancellor of Human Resources Marion Fedrick said of the ban, “It goes back to health and productivity. We’re not at all saying that they can’t smoke. They just can’t smoke on our campuses.”
(10/01/14 5:13am)
Delaware State University associate professor Cyril Broderick has recently come under fire for an article he wrote accusing the U.S. Department of Defense and the World Health Organization of causing the Ebola epidemic in Western Africa. The article was published in a Liberian newspaper.
(09/30/14 5:59am)
With the ongoing investigation into Hannah Graham’s disappearance, we have had to process a lot of information and a lot of emotion. The speculation whirling around what information we have is overwhelming, and the unanswered questions agonizing. And in these difficult times, we desperately look for someone to blame.