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Bucknell Investigating ‘Horrific’ Harassment of L.G.B.T.Q. Students
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Bucknell Investigating ‘Horrific’ Harassment of L.G.B.T.Q. Students

Bucknell Investigating ‘Horrific’ Harassment of L.G.B.T.Q. Students Officials at Bucknell University have ordered an investigation into what they described as a “horrific” episode of harassment targeting residents at a house for L.G.B.T.Q. students on its campus in Lewisburg, Pa., last week. In a letter to students, the university said a group of men “harassed and intimidated” residents of Fran’s House, an affinity house for L.G.B.T.Q. students, and tried to break into the building on Thursday night. In interviews, residents said they were terrified and traumatized by the episode. “It is clear from multiple accounts that the students violated the physical space and, far more importantly, the residents’ sense of place and security,” the university’s president, its provost and an associate ...
Twenty-six studies point to more play for young children
College Planning

Twenty-six studies point to more play for young children

Twenty-six studies point to more play for young childrenWhat if one of the answers to reducing inequality and addressing mental health concerns among young children is as simple as providing more opportunities to play? A growing body of research and several experts are making the case for play to boost the well-being of young children as the pandemic drags on—even as concerns over lost learning time and the pressure to catch kids up grow stronger. Play is so powerful, according to a recent report by the LEGO Foundation, that it can be used as a possible intervention to close achievement gaps between children ages 3 to 6. The report looked at 26 studies of play from 18 countries. It found that in disadvantaged communities, including those in Bangladesh, Rwanda and Ethiopia, children showed ...
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
Breaking up with your favorite racist childhood classic books
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Breaking up with your favorite racist childhood classic books

Breaking up with your favorite racist childhood classic booksFifth, because any culture you grow up in seems natural and inevitable, sometimes you simply don’t see. On the morning of March 2, I heard that Dr. Seuss Enterprises was withdrawing these six books, via a text from my friend, professor Sarah Park Dahlen. And I immediately thought: “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” and “Scrambled Eggs Super!” will be withdrawn for their racist caricatures. They were. Published at Sun, 16 May 2021 15:58:29 +0000 Article source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/16/breaking-up-with-racist-childrens-books/
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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...
New Zealand universities face fines after dormitory death
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New Zealand universities face fines after dormitory death

New Zealand universities face fines after dormitory deathNEW ZEALAND AFP  19 October 2019 New Zealand universities and dorm accommodation providers were told on 15 October they could face hefty fines following a gruesome case in which a student's decomposing body lay undetected in his room for weeks, reports AFP.Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the teenager's fate, which emerged last month, showed voluntary standards aimed at caring for students in halls of residence had failed. He said a mandatory code of practice would come into force in 2021, including fines of NZ$100,000 (USS$63,700) for breaches that led to a student's death or serious injury. "The [voluntary] code has effectively broken down... and now it's time for the government to be more involved," Hipkins told Radio New Z...
Escaping the Academic Equality Quagmire
Graduate Admissions

Escaping the Academic Equality Quagmire

Escaping the Academic Equality QuagmireEscaping the Program Equality Quagmire Academic programs, and the courses that deliver their content, are not of equal importance.  The implications of this came home to me recently when, in a webinar on academic resourcing, a participant objected that provosts and deans should not “put their thumbs on the scale” by considering program importance when deciding admission targets and departmental budgets.  “All programs and courses are of equal importance,” the participant asserted. “Providing their quality is good, all should have equal access to funding.” I was reminded of an example I used when describing growth by substitution in Reengineering the University (p. 27): “I’ve got good news and bad news about one of your programs” [the provost told the...
OPINION: Investments in child care facilities are critical to building a more equitable system of care
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OPINION: Investments in child care facilities are critical to building a more equitable system of care

OPINION: Investments in child care facilities are critical to building a more equitable system of careA little more than a month ago, President Biden announced his American Jobs Plan, which includes $25 billion to invest in facilities upgrades in child care settings and to build the supply of infant and toddler care. The plan also includes investments to replace all lead pipes and service lines in drinking water systems to ensure no child is at risk of exposure to lead. When combined with investments in making child care more affordable for families and supporting compensation for the child care workforce, these investments could have a transformative impact on the lives of children, families and providers. There is a demonstrated need to make investments in the physical infrastructure of ...
Caring for Students During COVID
Graduate Admissions

Caring for Students During COVID

Caring for Students During COVIDIn the weeks leading up to our class’s final assignment, I received a number of emails from students. Some wanted feedback on the drafts they’d created so far, and some wanted to apologize for late work, to ask for extensions, to check in about their grades or the quality of their work so far. No matter the topic, however, each one had been typed with the same tone of sheer and absolute panic. They were overly apologetic (“I’m so sorry to have to ask this”), filled with unnecessary reassurances (“I promise my work isn’t usually like this”), clearly sent in a rush (“please, if you have the time”) and filled with obvious expectations of rejection and shame (“I understand if this isn’t possible”). To say that the recent pandemic has been disruptive to academia ...
Holding Pattern
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Holding Pattern

Holding PatternThese days, I go to bed thinking about sickness and death, I dream about sickness and death, and I wake up reflecting on the sickness and death that will be revealed that day. It’s a far departure from when I simply agonized over my dissertation and graduate coursework 24/7. My main concerns were proving my academic mettle and practicing mindfulness to reduce stress; now, many of us in academia are simply trying to grapple with our new normal, the emerging risks, and the unknown unknowns.  For my own sanity’s sake, I intermittently avoid focusing on breaking news. But then again, when you crave factual information that could literally save your life and the lives of those you care about, you intentionally seek out purposeful data with meaningful interpretation – the only acc...
What I Learned From Students About Their Pandemic Struggles
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What I Learned From Students About Their Pandemic Struggles

What I Learned From Students About Their Pandemic StrugglesStarting last fall, as a staff writer for the magazine, I followed a group of A.P. students in Columbia, Mo., as they managed the trials of remote learning. One of the pleasures of my job is how often it exposes me to new environments or subject matter, some of it utterly foreign to my own experience. Reporting on these young people may well have been the first time that I felt that my own life paralleled, over and over again, what I was covering. As I was getting to know the young people I was focusing on in Missouri, I was watching my own sons, high school freshmen in a suburb of New York City, adjust to — or struggle with — the quirks, but also the disappointments, frustrations, cruelties, tedium and loneliness of months that i...
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Remote Union Organizing in the Time of COVID

Remote Union Organizing in the Time of COVIDSritama Chatterjee is a second year PhD student at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh. She can be found on Twitter  @SritamaBarna and on her Medium blog. Screenshot of a Zoom Union Office Hours for International Students When the lockdown was announced in Pennsylvania, I had just returned from the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference held in Boston and quarantined myself. I was preparing for universities to shift to remote teaching for the rest of the semester but I was still somewhat hopeful that I would be able to travel home during the summer. However within a week or two, when I realized that would not be possible anymore, I had two massive panic attacks because I was simply not able to embrace the uncertainty–th...
Graduate Admissions

‘Fordham should be ashamed’: Bitter outcome for pro-Palestinian group after university’s four-year fight to censor

‘Fordham should be ashamed’: Bitter outcome for pro-Palestinian group after university’s four-year fight to censorLast week, the New York State Court of Appeals declined to hear the appeal of the student-plaintiffs in Awad v. Fordham University, a case challenging Fordham’s 2017 denial of recognition to a prospective chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine on account of the group’s viewpoint. The decision from New York’s highest court leaves in place a state appellate court’s December 2020 ruling in favor of the university. Fordham should be ashamed of itself. This outcome is a bitter setback for student expressive rights at private universities in New York. Any person or organization committed to freedom of expression on campus should be deeply disappointed and concerned by this r...
Northwestern Athletic Director Resigns Amid Backlash Over Harassment Case
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Northwestern Athletic Director Resigns Amid Backlash Over Harassment Case

Northwestern Athletic Director Resigns Amid Backlash Over Harassment CaseHayden Richardson, a member of the team from 2018 to 2020, filed a lawsuit in January 2021 against the university, its deputy Title IX coordinator, its associate athletic director for marketing, Polisky and Bonnevier, claiming that she had been groped, harassed and lifted without her permission by intoxicated fans and alumni during university-sponsored events and tailgating parties. She said in the lawsuit that she had been encouraged to continue taking photographs and mingling with potential donors to elicit funds for the university even though she raised concerns about those actions to Bonnevier and Polisky. The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in the school’s state of Illinois, also contends that the Title I...
News From the North Pole
Graduate Admissions

News From the North Pole

News From the North PoleA Little Cheer for a Dreary Year   The holidays are upon us, and the North Pole has never been busier! Amid all the bustle, Santa is as jolly as ever, now that he and Mrs. Claus are speaking again, after an epic fight over the modification of Santa’s suit. It seems Santa did not appreciate the “quarantine fifteen” jokes.   The North Pole’s employment rate hit an all time high this year, as over one million seasonal worker elves poured into the region from all over the globe. In a recent interview, Mrs. Claus was showing signs of strain: “I am awfully tired of cooking for the vegan elves from Oregon. I simply can’t understand why they refuse my Reindeer Ratatouille, despite my assurances that it contains neither arctic reindeer nor French rats.” Santa is not thrille...