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• "Academia.edu"
  This commercial social networking site has a .edu domain that was registered in 1999 before that domain was restricted to accredited institutions of higher learning.
• Academic Freedom and Tenure: Community College of Aurora (Colorado)
  This report ay a committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) concerns actions taken by the administration of the Community College of Aurora, during the fourth week of the fall 2016 semester, to terminate the appointment of part-time instructor of philosophy Nathanial Bork without affordance of academic due process.
• Advice to a Young Scientist by Professor Moyses Szklo
  2014 Graduation, NIHES Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
• AP - US to fire monitor overseeing formerly for-profit colleges
  Jeff Horwitz, Associated Press, 3/14/2016. Earlier story at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/13/trouble-remains-following-failed-for-profit-school/
• Blaming Frats For Covid-19 On Campus. Unfair? (35 min) (1)
  Grant Holub-Moorman & Frank Stasio, The State of Things, 9/1/2020
  Host Frank Stasio talks with Holden Thorp about the partying paradox and asks Praveena Somasundaram, assistant online editor of The Daily Tar Heel, how different North Carolina universities have exercised authority over unruly Greek chapters during the pandemic. Fraternities often successfully resist punitive measures by wielding their economic and political influence, explains journalist John Hechinger.
• Commentary: the role of epidemiologists in funding biomedical education and research
  Melissa Perry, Annals of Epidemiology. September 2016;26(9):601–604 Melissa Perry served as the president of the American College of Epidemiology from September 2014 to September 2015. This is a written version of her Presidential Address at the 2015 Annual Meeting. Her speech was inspired by a 2014 Wall Street Journal commentary by Dr. Ferric Fang of the Washington University School of Medicine and Dr. Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. They likened the process of submitting a research proposal to the National Institutes of Health to playing the Powerball lottery. In her speech, Dr. Perry argued for the urgent need for epidemiology researchers to reach out to policymakers and the public in support of our field to ensure the continuation of research projects that can help improve the health of citizens everywhere.
• Endowments, Taxed
  John S. Rosenberg, John Harvard's Journal, Harvard Magazine, March-April 2018 The tax changes enacted by the Republican majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate just before Christmas and signed into law by President Donald Trump did not incorporate many of the features that most alarmed the higher-education community (see “Taxing Matters,” January-February, page 17). ... But the issue that most troubled Harvard’s leaders, and those of a couple of dozen other fortunate institutions, has become law: those whose endowments exceed $500,000 per student, and with more than 500 students, are now subject to a 1.4 percent tax on annual investment earnings. The roster of affected schools begins with Princeton and extends through Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, through colleges such as Pomona, Amherst, Swarthmore, Grinnell, and Williams.
• Harvard - The Wyss Institute
  "The Wyss Institute is crossing boundaries and disrupting the status quo to pioneer new technologies, new devices, and new therapeutics that harness the power of life itself. There is a technology revolution ... inspired by nature, built upon collaboration, self-assembly and disruptive innovation." (text re-ordered)
• Henry Blackburn seminar on the history of epidemiology at Univ of Minnesota
  Includes national perspectives
• How For-Profit Colleges Sell 'Risky Education' To The Most Vulnerable (43 min)
  NPR Fresh Air. For-profit colleges have faced federal and state investigations in recent years for their aggressive recruiting tactics — accusations that come as no surprise to author Tressie McMillan Cottom. Cottom worked as an enrollment officer at two different for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. Her new book, Lower Ed, argues that for-profit colleges exploit racial, gender and economic inequality. Cottom tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that for-profit institutions tend to focus their recruiting on students who qualify for the maximum amount of student aid. "That happens to be the poorest among us," she says. "And because of how our society is set up, the poorest among us tend to be women and people of color."
• Hundreds of physicians kill themselves each year. He didn't want to be one of them. – Dr. Charles van der Horst
  Charles van der Horst, MD, 1/19/2018 By the end of the anger management course and final chapter of the accompanying book, I realized that leaving my job as an academic physician was a key part of my recovery.
• Implementing and evaluating an interprofessional minority health conference for social work and healthcare professionals
  Tiffany R. Washington, Trina Salm Ward, Henry N. Young, Pamela Orpinas, Llewellyn J. Cornelius. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 2017 Sep 5:1-4 Abstract Interprofessional education (IPE) is one strategy for addressing health inequities; however, little attention has been paid to continuing IPE for practicing social work and healthcare professionals. This article offers guidance to faculty in social work and health-related academic units on offering continuing IPE on the topic of minority health. An interprofessional group of faculty offered a day-long conference on minority health, ethics, and social justice. The conference goal was to promote interprofessional communication in a co-learning environment and promote dialogue on social determinants of health and health equity in the state. Data were obtained from surveys and analysis of work plans developed during the conference. Workshop participants were majority White (62%), social workers (79%), and practiced for 14 years on average. The most useful topics were dementia and polypharmacy. Takeaway strategies included interprofessional work, being mindful of access to resources, and engagement in continuing education. Lessons learned include plan in advance for all professions; recruit faculty and students from multiple departments to increase interprofessional diversity; offer strategies and incentives to increase student participation; be strategic about conference location and format; and identify a strategic format and theme. IPE is a means of preparing learners for working together in their future careers to provide high-quality patient-centred care and reduce health disparities. Professional development can provide an opportunity to enhance skills to address health disparities, and learning can be significantly enhanced when participants connect with colleagues from different professions, discuss diverse opinions, and share successful practices.
• Minority Health and Health Equity Archive
  The Minority Health and Health Equity Archive is an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. The goal of the Archive is to advance the use of new digital technologies to promote trans-disciplinary scholarship on race, ethnicity and disparities research designed to achieve health equity. The Archive will help facilitate the rapid dissemination of new work in the professional literature as well as the gray literature including, but not limited to, historical documents, government resources, teaching tools and commentary
• NY Times - At Trump University, Students Recall Pressure to Give Positive Reviews
  At Trump University, Students Recall Pressure to Give Positive Reviews Michael Barbaro and Steve Eder, March 11, 2016 "... hundreds of pages of legal documents, as well as interviews with former students and instructors, suggest the surveys themselves were a central component of a business model that, according to lawsuits and investigators, deceived consumers into handing over thousands of dollars with tantalizing promises of riches."
• Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research Network (RTRN)
  RCMI RTRN fosters and supports inter-institutional collaboration to maximally leverage outcomes, resources and expertise across member RCMI institutions, enhancing research capacity and accelerating the understanding and treatment of diseases, with a focus on those that disproportionately affect underserved communities.
• Saudi Universities Offer Cash in Exchange for Academic Prestige and responses
• Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
  A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents. Cristin E. Kearns, Laura A. Schmidt, Stanton A. Glantz. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016(Nov); 176(11):1680-1685. Abstract excerpt: We examined Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) internal documents, historical reports, and statements relevant to early debates about the dietary causes of CHD and assembled findings chronologically into a narrative case study. The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.
• The AcaDames
  AcaDames is a biweekly podcast that explores whether being a woman in academia is a dream, game, or scam through interviews with a diverse range of women. Discussions cover career trajectories, finances, childbearing decisions, spirituality, the ever-present patriarchy, and everything in between. Co-hosts Whitney Robinson and Sarah Birken open up to each other and their guests in intimate, frank, and often funny conversations. Along the way, they share insider knowledge about the “hidden curriculum” for professional advancement (and potential world domination).
• The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job
  Ruth Graham, New York Times Magazine, Oct 13, 2016 When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became divided over what intellectual freedom on its campus really meant.
• The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken
  The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 02, 2016 "I am very concerned about the culture of academia in this country and the perverse incentives that are given to young faculty. The pressures to get funding are just extraordinary. We’re all on this hedonistic treadmill — pursuing funding, pursuing fame, pursuing h-index — and the idea of science as a public good is being lost." . . . "These are gut-wrenching things. But the main thing is, Do not let our educational institutions make you into something that you will be ashamed of."
• Trinity Suspends Targeted Professor
  Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, June 27, 2017 Trinity College in Connecticut put Johnny Eric Williams on leave, it announced Monday evening. Williams, an associate professor of sociology at Trinity, previously said he’d left the state amid physical threats that followed his use of racially charged language on social media. The college also closed down for a day last week over such threats. Reached via email Monday, Williams said he was “heartbroken” over the college’s decision, which came without a faculty review.
• UNC and UNC entities
• UNC Professor Allowed to Harass LGBTQ Students
  Jenn Hoffman, The Daily Beast, 11/28/2016 UNC’s Mike Adams calls trans people ‘mentally ill’ and compares same-sex marriage to ‘rape.’ And the school can’t—or won’t—stop him.
• Working Life column in Science
  Weekly column about training and career experiences. E.g., "Coping with class in science", Curtis D. Holder, 10 Feb 2017;355(6325):658.
• Yale grad students file petition seeking union certification
  Aug 29, 2016 Yale University graduate students on Monday petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for union recognition, saying they have organized to address concerns surrounding pay and benefits and give themselves a stronger voice in university affairs.
• ‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence
  Brandon Ambrosino, Politico, Sept. 9, 2019
  More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world.