Articles of interest about higher ed - Feb 19
/***COVID-19
Why a failure to vaccinate the world will put us all at risk
Coronavirus Variants and Mutations ($)
Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics ($)
What do we know about the rare disease affecting children with COVID-19?
***HIGHER ED & COVID
Here's the State Where the Most College Students Got COVID-19
Some states treat college educators the same as teachers for getting vaccine—but many are not
Resident assistants, campus housing staffers push for access to coronavirus vaccines ($)
Some Campuses Have Already Eclipsed Their Fall Covid-19 Case Totals. What’s Going On?
***COVID AT SPECIFIC SCHOOLS
Reinfections of COVID-19 confirmed on UW-Madison campus
University of San Diego institutes stay-on-campus order due to COVID-19 spike
Penn State among the nation's first to offer a class on COVID-19
***HIGHER ED & POLITICS
Kansas lawmakers want tuition refunds for college classes put online due to COVID
Biden pares back Trump apprenticeship program
***LAYOFFS & FURLOUGHS
Wright State president to recommend up to 113 faculty positions be eliminated
Marquette University Laid Off 39 In January. Staff And Students Fear More Cuts Are To Come
University of Central Florida workers ‘blindsided’ when their jobs were eliminated
***COLLEGE FINANCES
Where states are boosting or slashing higher ed funding amid the pandemic
Historic Black colleges to get $650,000 to preserve campuses
Think Twice Before Rolling Out a Tuition Reset ($)
***HIGHER ED & THE WINTER STORM
Colleges shiver through dangerous conditions from record winter weather
Dwindling food, flooded halls, unflushable toilets: Texas’ university dorms descend into chaos
***HUMANITIES
'Arts graduates are flexible': why humanities degrees are making a comeback
***HIGHER ED IN COURT
Fresno State women's lacrosse players file lawsuit against university
UW-Madison sued for allegedly hiding critical comments from its social media accounts
Parents sue Univ of Michigan after doctors told them wrong daughter was at high risk for cancer
***TEACHING
Neural nets yield clues to how brains learn
Did positive thinking boost college faculty's online teaching?
I Actually Like Teaching on Zoom (opinion)
Professor realizes at end of 2-hour Zoom lecture that he was on mute
Google rolls out a slew of upgrades to improve virtual classrooms
Chegg, accused of helping students cheat, reports ‘best year’ and raises 2021 guidance
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Scottish University Draws Ire for Dismissing Female Gender Studies Lead
English departments rethink what to call themselves
Blowback from Oregon State faculty on Reser Stadium project is a misfire
Professor quits after posing as female immigrant on Twitter
***ADMINISTRATORS
4 in 10 College Administrators Unconcerned about Cyberattacks
Fayetteville State gets new chancellor
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Azusa Pacific University back open after threat prompted temporary evacuations
Southwest Baptist University Trustees Reverse Some Tenure/Promotion Denials
Political ramblings out of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Center for Public Theology ($)
***RESEARCH
Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database Scopus
How Scientometrics Became the Most Important Science for Researchers of All Specialties
COVID-19 has triggered a huge amount of research, but also a deluge” of research waste
A better approach for dealing with reproducibility and replicability in science (opinion)
A review of 1.1 million Twitter links to scholarly articles found that half drew no clicks
***STUDENT LIFE
Why Do Adults Return To College? It’s More Complex Than Higher Ed Leaders’ Data Suggest
The Columbia University student strike is about far more than tuition
More International Grad Students Wanted to Come to the U.S., but Couldn’t ($)
UCLA student who stormed Capitol, sat in Pence’s Senate chamber chair arrested in Costa Mesa
Indigenous and LGBTQ Students' Mental Health Most Hurt by Pandemic
Pandemic spurs colleges to 'meet students where they're at,' provide flexible options
Minnesota college students with children face overwhelming balancing act during pandemic
College student who planned on being a pediatrician dies of COVID
The Future of Media is Being Written at College Newspapers
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A UCSD Professor Sent a Student Porn. Here’s Why it Took a Year to Fire Him.
Lawsuit filed against University of Illinois over alleged sexual abuse
***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS
Resignations of Black faculty at St. Olaf College leave students seeking answers
Harassment cases revive worries of racism at Boston College
Accused of Racism, University of North Texas Professor Sues School over 'Academic Free Speech'
Bluefield College basketball players to stay in locker room during anthem
Lehigh University professor’s remarks about race and poverty draw criticism from students, faculty