Inside Higher Ed: Popular professor at Harrisburg Area Community College suspended after report he used the f-word in class
When the semester started, Stephen E. Williams was teaching history at the Lancaster branch of Harrisburg Area Community College. But early in the semester, he stopped showing up, and his students received calls confirming the reason why: He had used the word “fuck” in class.
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The Chronicle: New Federal Rule on Running Online Job Searches Presents Host of Complexities to Colleges, Speaker Says
The clock is ticking for colleges to comply with a new federal regulation designed to tackle the challenges institutions face in complying with nondiscrimination laws when using the Internet and résumé databases in recruiting and hiring.
The so-called Internet-applicant rule actually went into effect on February 6. But the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which announced the final rule last fall, is giving federal contractors, which includes most colleges, a 90-day grace period during which the agency will not issue citations for technical violations.
At issue is how federal contractors define the applicant pool for a job opening in an era when the ease of applying for a job through the Internet as well as electronic résumé banks, both on campuses and on Web sites like Monster.com, has vastly expanded the field of potential candidates.
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The Chronicle: AGREEMENT IN REVERSE-BIAS CASE
The U.S. Department of Justice and Langston University have reached a deal in a reverse-discrimination case, but the white professor at the center of the flap is not satisfied with the $30,000 she would receive under the settlement. She is now considering suing the university herself.
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The Chronicle: Bar Association Moves to Strengthen Diversity Requirements for Accreditation of Law Schools
Law schools would be required to demonstrate the concrete steps they are taking to ensure that their student bodies, faculties, and staffs are racially and ethnically diverse under a revised standard approved on Saturday by the accrediting arm of the American Bar Association. Critics denounced the move as promoting “defiance” of federal law.
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The Chronicle: Law Schools’ Emphasis on LSAT Scores Hurts Black Applicants, Report Say
In an effort to raise their U.S. News & World Report rankings and avoid trouble with accreditors, law-school admissions officers are overemphasizing standardized-test scores and thereby discriminating against African-American applicants whose scores, on average, are lower than those of their white peers, according to a report due out next month.
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Inside Higher Ed: Panel Finds Age Discrimination at Ohio U
Ohio University engaged in age discrimination when it denied tenure to a then 51-year-old engineer in 2001, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission said in a stinging ruling this month, rejecting the recommendation of an administrative law judge. The commission ordered the university to offer a tenured associate professor position to Robert Lipset and to give him $266,000 in back pay. Ohio University officials said they would appeal the agency’s decision.
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Inside Higher Ed: Measures of equity
At a meeting Saturday, historians joked about the phrase “chilly climate,” but their barbs about holding on to their winter coats reflected disappointment about what many said was a backlash against efforts to recruit female and minority professors.
History has made more progress than many other disciplines, and many graduate programs have a relatively even mix of men and women — and more minority students than are in many other disciplines. But a series of studies have found that advancement is slow and that the more senior ranks of the profession are much less diverse.
Given that track record, experts gathered at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association discussed why they think progress has been slow, as well as ideas for starting new efforts to help gay historians find jobs and good careers in the field.
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San Jose Mercury-News: Stanford U under scrutiny for gender discrimination
After a four-year hiatus, the U.S. Department of Labor has resumed its probe into discrimination allegations at Stanford University, sending investigators onto campus to review employment records of women and minorities.
The investigators are reviewing files that contain information about salaries and promotions. They will then analyze their data to see if Stanford, a recipient of federal money, complied with federal anti-discrimination laws.
The investigation of four schools at Stanford, including the schools of medicine and law, was launched in 1998 when several dozen frustrated female faculty members brought a 400-page complaint to the government alleging gender discrimination. The complaint later expanded to include racial discrimination.
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