Articles of interest about higher ed - Nov 23

***THE VIRUS  

Puzzling, often debilitating after-effects plaguing COVID-19 "long-haulers"

COVID Symptoms Usually Appear in This Order, Study Finds

Can You Get Coronavirus Inside a Restaurant? The odds of catching the coronavirus are about 20 times higher indoors than outdoors

Nurses, doctors use social media to plead for public to take COVID-19 seriously as cases surge

***HIGHER ED & THE VIRUS 

Coronavirus cases on college campuses spike, linked to parties

Contact Tracers Are On Front Lines Of Fight Against COVID-19 On Campus

Many colleges are now announcing new shifts to online learning

***THE VIRUS AT SPECIFIC SCHOOLS 

University of Alabama considers requiring all staff, students to return to campus in January

Innovative coronavirus testing let Duke keep its doors open

University of Wyoming to move classes online starting Monday

Columbia University bans 70 students for Covid-19 travel violations

As coronavirus cases surge, Cal Poly students head home

***LAYOFFS & FURLOUGHS 

Layoffs could continue during second phase of cuts, George Washington University officials say

New Mexico State University delivers update on budgeting and potential employee cuts

Marquette University employees protest potential layoffs amid COVID-19 pandemic

The lowest-paid workers in higher education are suffering the highest job losses ($)

University job losses mirror pain of unequal recession ($)

***COLLEGE FINANCES

College Temporarily Suspends Employee Retirement Contributions

Virginia Tech loses $60 million as pandemic hits budget

Is College Worth It? Decoding New Approaches to Calculating ROI

Top USF faculty question budget cuts. ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’

 ***HIGHER ED & POLITICS

What Jill Biden’s Dissertation Reveals About Her Approach to Higher Education

Petition circulating at Harvard to stop former Trump administration officials from attending, teaching or speaking at the university

Biden wants to scrap Betsy DeVos' rules on sexual assault in schools. It won't be easy.

Biden’s Education Department Will Move Fast to Reverse Betsy DeVos’s Policies

***HIGHER ED

Many colleges and universities not returning to class after Thanksgiving

University of Arizona plans to acquire Ashford University moves forward  

***HUMANITIES 

Can we pull colleges away from politics and back to wisdom? Consider that many of the great scientific minds of the past were equally versed in the humanities

Humanities tell us we were made for times like these

***TEACHING  

Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms

COVID's effect on teaching

***ONLINE CHEATING   

Colleges Say They Don’t Need Exam Surveillance Tools to Stop Cheating

How Do I Deal With Cheating in the Age of Zoom? ($)

Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software

Students rebel over remote test monitoring during the pandemic ($)

Student surveillance and online proctoring

***ACADEMIC LIFE  

Academic Senate Votes to Censure Eugenics Professor at California State University, East Bay

Faculty pandemic stress is now chronic

Virginia professor resigns after Facebook post calls Biden supporters 'anti-Christian'

Dear Professor, how honest are you?

***ADMINISTRATORS

Larry Dietz to retire as Illinois State University president in June

Deep Budget and Program Cuts Roil Guilford

State college board announces new president for Jackson State University

University of Michigan reaches $9 million settlement with 8 women who were sexually harassed by ex-provost

TCC Provost Madeline Pumariega named president of Miami

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS  

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court  to take up Gordon College discrimination suit 

Fewer International Students at Christian Colleges

What Poetry Taught Wheaton’s New Provost About Leadership

Facebook post by Virginia Wesleyan dean asks Biden voters to “unfriend” him, causes an uproar at university

Developer shows plans for Moody Bible property

336 quarantine at Indiana Wesleyan

Following end of federal oversight, a Catholic University will no longer recognize faculty union

PLNU chief economist Lynn Reaser on the pandemic, housing and why studying the economy is so exciting

Surfing course at Point Loma Nazarene University

***RESEARCH 

Biomedical observations are often misrepresented in the scientific literature

Why do bad methods persist in some academic disciplines, even when they have been clearly rejected in others?

The expert crowd review solution

Only 24% of the 266 Carnegie R1 and R2 Universities had publicly available authorship policies

Researcher photoshops his name onto a Nature Communications paper

Journals flag concerns in three dozen papers by nutrition researchers

Pharmaceutical advertising biases media reports on drug safety

A lack of transparency in AI research has led to an AI replication crisis—an advertisement for technology should not be mistaken for a scientific study

Author blames “multitasking dementia” for duplicated cancer paper

***STUDENT LIFE 

Report: Student Satisfaction Down, but They Still Plan to Enroll

Harvard graduate students demand a ban on Trump officials, Then the pushback began

Many college students adhere to COVID rules, but some are 'reckless' and 'irresponsible'

College kids are going hungry — states can help

Academics, video game makers team up in rare collaboration

***STUDENTS & THANKSGIVING 

College students hit the road after an eerie pandemic semester. Will the virus go home with them? ($)

College students urged not to travel home for Thanksgiving amid COVID-19

How Can My College Student Come Home Safely for Thanksgiving?

Indiana officials emphasize caution for students headed home

***STUDENT APPLICATIONS

College applicants are down, especially among low-income students, Common App says

Pandemic pushes steep drop in foreign college students

***FREE SPEECH

GOP student group's tweets don't violate university policy, Iowa State says

Why Charges Against Protesters Are Being Dismissed by the Thousand

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

University of California agrees to $73 million settlement over sex abuse claims against former gynecologist

LSU mishandled sexual misconduct complaints against students, including top athletes

***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS

A Maryland college honors the lives of enslaved people

California State University faculty, administrators remain at odds over ethnic studies requirement

Appeals Court Rules Harvard Can Use Race-Based ‘Tips’ During Admissions Process

UC Berkeley removed the names of 'racist' figures from two of its buildings

Alexandria turns Controversy into Opportunity by Teaching the history of Confederate Namesakes