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COVID-19 in Higher Ed:
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact university campuses, we will continue to monitor coverage around emerging trends
- Simmons University in Boston announced it would reinstate its indoor mask mandate, citing a rising number of positive COVID-19 cases in the campus community.
- Boston Globe - 222 engagements
- Lindenwood University in Missouri agreed to a $1.65 million settlement on Wednesday in a suit filed by students who felt the switch to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was "subpar."
- Fox Business - 172 engagements
- Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro revealed he tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday night.
- Daily Northwestern - 61 engagements
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Sexual Misconduct:
- May 13 | Breitbart | 7.2K Engagements: “Johns Hopkins Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse has hired a former Old Dominion University professor who was put on leave after claiming that sexual attraction to children is not always immoral, and that he wants to destigmatize pedophiles by referring to them as “minor-attracted persons” (MAPs), instead.”
Title IX:
- May 12 | ABC Local News | 90 Engagements: “The introduction of Title IX in 1972 ushered in a new era of educational and athletic opportunities for women."Most people think Title IX is sports legislation. It's not. It is civil rights legislation," said Finch, who described it as "the most significant piece of legislation affecting women" in the country.”
- May 12 | Inside Higher Ed | 40 Engagements: “Liberty University has reportedly reached a settlement with various plaintiffs—a mix of former students and employees—who sued the evangelical college in Virginia for allegedly mishandling Title IX issues for years. The settlement was made official Wednesday, according to court documents.”
Endowments:
- May 14 | The Salt Lake Tribune | 157 Engagements: “Univesity of Utah President Taylor Randall says the school is still looking at divesting oil and gas holdings in its $1 billion endowment, but it will be at least another year before such a move occurs”
- May 13 | Bloomberg | 50 Engagements: “N.P. “Narv” Narvekar, the head of Harvard University’s endowment, was paid $6.24 million in 2020, little-changed from the year before. Narvekar received about $1 million in base salary, according to the school’s federal tax filing. He had about another $5.2 million in deferred compensation, Harvard said.”
Discrimination:
- May 18 | New York Post | 218 Engagements: “The woke police are coming for the term "obesity." The University of Illinois Chicago’s school of public health published an article by a dietitian claiming the medical term is “racist” and should be replaced with the wordy term “people with larger bodies.””
- May 13 | Twitter | Armand Domalewski | 92 Retweets: ““yes, speed cameras may reduce pedestrian deaths in Black and Brown communities, but there’s a chance the cops could use them to see when I’m going 80 mph in a 15 mph school zone, and that would be White Supremacy,” said the rich white Yale educated ACLU lawyer”
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Cost of Attendance:
- May 18 | Twitter | Occupy Democrats | 7K Retweets: “BREAKING: Billionaire Mark Cuban comes out in support of Joe Biden’s proposal to cancel at least $10,000 in student loans per borrower and calls for ensuring that universities no longer charge “ridiculous” fees. RT IF YOU SUPPORT BIDEN’S PROPOSAL!”
COVID-19:
- May 17 | Twitter | wsbgnl | 508 Retweets: “I wish it was knowable how many Americans have died of covid as a consequence of Ivy League professors being in a spat with their kid's school about in-person instruction or mask policy, and then deciding to use their credentials to downplay covid risk on the national stage”
- May 11 | Twitter | Karen Hunt | 167 Retweets: “Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., senior research scientist at MIT for over five decades believes the COVID-19 “vaccines” will end up killing far more people than the disease itself, and will make the disease worse.”
Sexual Misconduct:
- May 13 | New York Post | 5.9K Engagements: “An academic who resigned from a Virginia university after saying it wasn’t necessarily immoral for adults to be sexually attracted to kids has been hired by a Johns Hopkins University center aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.”
- May 13 | Twitter | Andy Ngô | 1.8K Retweets: “A disgraced academic accused of defending MAPS (minor attracted persons ie pedophiles) has received a job at the Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sex Abuse (@MooreCenter_JHU). Allyn Walker was forced to resign from Old Dominion University last year.”
Free Speech:
- May 17 | The Washington Free Beacon | 2.1K Engagements: “Princeton University is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors in the country, Joshua Katz, after his criticism of the school’s racial politics made him the target of student protests and the subject of two separate university investigations.”
- May 11 | Twitter | Jonathan Turley | 435 Retweets: “Georgetown Law Professor Josh Chafetz is under fire this week after going to Twitter to defend “aggressive” protests at the homes of Supreme Court justices. Chafetz explained that such mob action should be permissible when “the mob is right.””
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University of Portland: ▲Athletics ▲Curriculum
University of Notre Dame: ▲University Events
- May 12 | CBS Sports | 3.2K Engagements: “Former Pittsburgh Steelers star running back Jerome Bettis is officially a college graduate. "The Bus" returned to Notre Dame decades after leaving the university to finish out his degree from the Mendoza School of Business.”
University of the Pacific: ▲University Events ▲Prominent Alumni
- May 16 | Pacific Tigers | 68 Engagements: “Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll paid homage to his former professors as he was awarded an honorary degree at University of the Pacific's commencement ceremony Saturday.”
Gonzaga University: ▲Athletics
- May 13 | Pacific Northwest Sports | 313 Engagements: “All of the Gonzaga Bulldogs starters declared for the 2022 NBA Draft. According to mock drafts, only Chet Holmgren is in the first round of the draft. Drew Timme, Andrew Nembhard, and Julian Strawther‘s mock drafts show them in the second round.”
- May 17 | Twitter | Jeff Goodman | 56 Retweets: “The NBA Draft Lottery is tonight, and the No. 1 pick isn’t nearly as clear as it has been in the past. Could depend on the team that wins the lottery tonight. Top 4 guys on the board: Jabari Smith, Auburn Chet Holmgren, Gonzaga Paolo Banchero, Duke Jaden Ivey, Purdue”
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Harvard: ▲Research
University of Florida: ▲Research ▲Athletics ▲Free Speech
- May 12 | Twitter | NASA | 2.4K Retweets: “For the first time ever, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil. This @UF and @NASASpaceSci experiment using Apollo Moon samples could shape the future of sustainable astronaut missions to deep space. Dig into the story”
- May 16 | 247 Sports | 441 Engagements: “Florida has hired a new soccer coach, a little less than a month after firing former coach Tony Amato after just one season when concerns over his handling of the program came to light. The Gators have tabbed Embry-Riddle coach Samantha Bohon as the program's third coach.”
Johns Hopkins University: ▲Employment
- May 14 | The Daily Wire | 11K Engagements: “A transgender professor who resigned from a Virginia university after sparking outrage by complaining that pedophilia is a "stigmatizing" term has been hired by prestigious Johns Hopkins University”
Texas A&M: ▲Athletics
- May 18 | Twitter | Mike Rodak | 575 Retweets: “Saban: We were 2nd in recruiting last year. A&M was first. A&M bought every player on their team. Made a deal for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player. But I don’t know if we’re going to be able to sustain that in the future because more and more people are doing it”
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