Articles of interest about higher education - April 17

***COVID-19

How Pfizer Became the Status Vax

Some People’s Bodies Aren’t Set Up for Vaccines

Vaccines Won’t Protect Millions of Patients With Weakened Immune Systems ($)

***HIGHER ED & COVID

Maine college will fine students $50 for failing to mask 

What former foster children went through when the COVID-19 pandemic closed college campuses

4 Historically Black Medical Schools Receive $6 Million for Vaccination ($)

Texas and Utah Bar Public Colleges From Requiring Covid-19 Vaccines ($)

A vaccine study in college students will help determine when it’s safe to take masks off

Hampton University requires all staff get vaccinated by May 31

***HIGHER ED & POLITICS

Texas lawmakers consider limiting tenure after UT-Austin professor sued students over accusations of promoting pedophilia

***LAYOFFS & CUTS

Laurentian University cuts 69 programs

City College San Francisco to lay off nearly 163 full-time faculty

***HIGHER ED IN COURT 

American University hit with pay discrimination lawsuit from female Kogod professor

Parent involved in college admissions scandal sues Netflix over documentary

***CHEATING  

University of Michigan Dearborn decides to reject remote proctoring

Report: Plagiarism Rates Changed When Instruction Moved Online

Dartmouth medical students accused of cheating

***ACADEMIC LIFE  

Caught up in false accusations, professors found themselves fighting to clear their names

Scottsdale Professor Who Offended Muslims Gets Hefty Settlement From College District

SDSU defends professor's use of controversial language about race and stereotypes

Why Disability Studies Scholars Are Protesting a Prominent Textbook

'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua says Yale punishing her over false student allegations

***ADMINISTRATORS

University of South Alabama board appoints acting president

Shippensburg University gets interim president

***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS  

Students protest Seattle Pacific University policies after discrimination lawsuit

Liberty University Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 Million ($)

South Carolina private colleges are challenging a state law prohibiting public funding for religious or other private educational institutions

College of the Ozarks sues Biden Administration over anti-sex discrimination order

Falwell’s son out as VP at Liberty University

Colleges Seek to Intervene in Title IX Religious Exemption Suit

Pacific Lutheran University to cut 36 positions, eliminate programs to fit budget

Why Belmont University is making more space for Jewish perspectives

Notre Dame, First Christian University to Require Mandatory Vaccination for All Students

***RESEARCH

Why don’t researchers correct their own errors in the scientific record?

Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors

Has the pandemic changed research culture – and is it for the better?

Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists 

Want other scientists to cite you? Drop the jargon

Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals 

Leading Chinese universities axe publication requirement for PhDs ($)

Why did it take so many decades for the behavioral sciences to develop a sense of crisis around methodology and replication? 

***STUDENT LIFE 

Bowling Green State University expels fraternity for hazing in wake of student's death

Florida poised to pass bill allowing students to record classes

Consumer survey of teens

After Anti-Asian Incidents, Colleges Seek to Reassure Fearful International Students ($)

***FREE SPEECH

How unconstitutional school-disruption laws place children at risk of prosecution for “speech crimes”

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

Former student sues University of Evansville over sexual assault allegations against former basketball coach

Ohio University Board Says Professor Accused Of Sexual Harassment Should Be Fired

'I just want women to be safe': Women who resigned from University of Minnesota math department speak out about sexism

Three rapes reported on Stanford University campus

Eastern Michigan rape suspect: Title IX director said assault didn't sound like him

***RACIAL ISSUES ON CAMPUS 

Cornell faculty approves resolution removing race from crime alerts

Nazi salutes at the University of Kentucky

Univ of San Francisco Student Who Hung Noose Off Dorm Room Balcony Expelled University of Minnesota confronts troubled history with tribal nations ($)

After Anti-Asian Incidents, Colleges Seek to Reassure Fearful International Students ($)

***CAMPUS CYBERATTACKS

Cyberattacks Are Spiking. Colleges Are Fighting Back 

University Of Colorado Refuses To Pay $17 Million Ransom