Articles of Interest about Higher Ed - Dec 1

***HIGHER ED

How activists at one college are getting out information out about what they claim is a poorly operated institution https://www.boldlybankrupt.com/

Parents ‘bigger problem’ than essay mills (sub. req’ed) https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mums-and-dads-bigger-problem-essay-mills

Colleges Struggling to Keep Up with Student Mental Health Needs https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/mental-health/college-student-mental-health-needs/

More college students are seeking help for mental health, but what happens when there aren't enough counselors? https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/education/4794643-More-college-students-are-seeking-help-for-mental-health-but-what-happens-when-there-arent-enough-counselors

Why the Dept. of Ed decided to treat Grand Canyon University as a for-profit, even though it’s registered with the IRS as a non-profit https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2019/11/30/no-the-irs-does-not-make-a-college-a-non-profit/

***HIGHER ED & CRIME 

ICE arrests 90 more foreign students at fake university created by DHS in Michigan https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/27/university-farmington-ice-arrests-more-fake-michigan-college/4317788002/

US Man Allegedly Plotted ISIS-Style Attack After Suspension From Colleges https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-tried-enlist-isis-attack-colleges-suspended-expelled-him-n1091141

***HIGHER ED & FINANCE

Dawn Of The Dead: For Hundreds Of The Nation’s Private Colleges, It’s Merge Or Perish https://www.forbes.com/sites/schifrin/2019/11/27/dawn-of-the-dead-for-hundreds-of-the-nations-private-colleges-its-merge-or-perish/

University Reverses Its Decision to Stop Accepting Medicaid http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/11/27/byu-idaho-retracts-earlier-medicaid-decision

***HIGHER ED IN COURT

Settlement reached in suit over video captioning at Harvard https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/settlement-reached-suit-video-captioning-harvard-67347654

Supreme Court won't throw out climate scientist Michael Mann's defamation suit against National Review https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/25/politics/supreme-court-climate-scientist-michael-mann-national-review/index.html

Law School Donor Sues After Learning His Name Isn’t On Degrees The Law School Doesn’t Give https://abovethelaw.com/2019/11/law-school-donor-sues-after-learning-his-name-isnt-on-degrees-the-law-school-doesnt-give/

Yale University Employees file class-action lawsuit claiming the institution’s wellness programs violates federal law https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/employer-wellness-program-is-illegal-lawsuit-contends

***ACADEMIC LIFE 

Academic freedom breached at Thompson Rivers University, investigation finds  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/academic-freedom-breached-thompson-rivers-university-1.5365146

Plagiarism in Brazil: A perspective of 25,000 PhD holders across the sciences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/825026v1

Federal data show proportion of all instructors who work full-time is rising, even as total faculty workforce contracts slightly. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/27/federal-data-show-proportion-instructors-who-work-full-time-rising

Plagiarism charge against UCCS professor dismissed https://gazette.com/news/plagiarism-charge-against-uccs-professor-dismissed/article_dc62743a-1093-11ea-965c-87a5fa15141d.html

***RESEARCH 

On the troubling trail of psychiatry’s pseudopatients stunt https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03268-y

The Challenges of Sharing Data in an Era of Politicized Science https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756117

***STUDENT LIFE

Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/style/cancel-culture.html

WHO warns adolescents get too little exercise as screen time prevails https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/who-warns-adolescents-get-too-little-exercise-as-screen-time-prevails.html

Study: Students show ‘troubling’ lack of news literacy skills  https://newslit.org/updates/study-students-show-troubling-lack-of-news-literacy-skills/ 

Millennial and Gen Z Republicans stand out from their elders on climate and energy issues https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/25/younger-republicans-differ-with-older-party-members-on-climate-change-and-energy-issues/

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT 

Students Disrupt Philosophy Professor’s Course, Call For Resignation https://dailynous.com/2019/11/22/students-disrupt-philosophy-professors-course-call-resignation/

Exploiting the Exploited? Insiders Accuse Charity Of Cashing In On Sex Trafficking Concerns  https://www.nbcsandiego.com/investigations/Exploiting-the-Exploited-Insiders-Accuse-Charity-Of-Cashing-In-On-Sex-Trafficking-Concerns-565502951.html