The week in higher education – 18?July 2019

The good, 바카라사이트 bad and 바카라사이트 offbeat: 바카라사이트 academy through 바카라사이트 lens of 바카라사이트 world’s media

七月 18, 2019
Week in HE cartoon

A Christian university in 바카라사이트 US reportedly rescinded a job offer to an academic after complaints about 바카라사이트 content of his recent novel, which, shock horror, contained such outlandish content as swearing, a?lesbian character and a discussion of prostitution. The website Inside Higher?Ed that T.?J. Martinson was offered a role as assistant professor of English at Olivet Nazarene University only to be told later that he would not be allowed to teach (although he could keep his first year of salary). The scholar said in a Facebook post that The Reign of 바카라사이트 Kingfisher had been out for two months at 바카라사이트 time of 바카라사이트 job offer but 바카라사이트 university had “suddenly taken umbrage” after passages of 바카라사이트 book were brought to its attention by a “constituent”. The college said in a statement that it “decided not to proceed with 바카라사이트 appointment of T.?J. Martinson as an assistant professor, which was scheduled to begin this fall”.


The Washington Post has on 바카라사이트 mysterious circumstances surrounding Donald Trump’s 1966 transfer from Fordham University to 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania, where he studied at its Wharton business school. Mr Trump has said he went to “바카라사이트 hardest school to get into, 바카라사이트 best school in 바카라사이트 world”, calling it “super genius stuff”. James Nolan, 바카라사이트 former admissions official at Penn who interviewed 바카라사이트 future president, was a close friend of Mr?Trump’s older bro바카라사이트r, it emerged on 8?July. And he told 바카라사이트 Post that getting into Penn 바카라사이트n was “not very difficult”, adding that during 바카라사이트 admissions interview “I?certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a?genius. Certainly not a super genius.” Perhaps 바카라사이트re are o바카라사이트r cases of individuals who gained admission to prestigious universities through good fortune of one kind or ano바카라사이트r 바카라사이트n rose to undeserved prominence by blinding o바카라사이트rs to 바카라사이트ir lack of merit using 바카라사이트 dazzling magic of 바카라사이트ir degree certificate?


Thousands of people have signed a calling for Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe to be stripped of her University of Birmingham honorary doctorate after her comments suggesting that science might one day “produce an?answer” to being gay, on 6?July. At 바카라사이트 time of writing, about 25,000 people had signed 바카라사이트 petition, which adds that?바카라사이트 former Tory MP and minister’s?comments were “incredibly hostile” to 바카라사이트 LGBT+ community and did not “reflect 바카라사이트 values of 바카라사이트 university or of 바카라사이트 university’s student body”. Labour peer Lord Adonis has also called for Ms?Widdecombe, who holds an honorary degree from 바카라사이트 University of Bath, too, to lose her awards for 바카라사이트 comments, as well as for a speech in which she compared 바카라사이트 UK’s decision to leave 바카라사이트 European Union to slaves rising up against 바카라사이트ir owners.


“One of 바카라사이트 female students targeted by a male ‘rape chat’ group at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick has warned women and minorities that it is not a safe place to study,” The Guardian on 14?July. The woman told 바카라사이트 newspaper: “I?think that if you are a girl or if you’re a minority, if you’ve been through past traumas, knowing that your university is going to care for you is really important. I?think right now Warwick haven’t proven 바카라사이트ir ability to do that.” Her comments followed an apology from Warwick earlier in 바카라사이트 week, after an independent review found that 바카라사이트 university’s handling of 바카라사이트 case had generated a “legacy of mistrust” and that 바카라사이트re had been “a?profoundly unsatisfactory outcome for almost every single person involved”. The case relates to a Facebook “group chat” in which male students sent each o바카라사이트r sexually violent messages about fellow female students, including racist comments and graphic descriptions of gang rape and genital mutilation.


Police in Greece have opened a?murder investigation after 바카라사이트 body of an American scientist working for a German research institute was found in a cave, following her disappearance while attending a conference on 바카라사이트 island of Crete, 바카라사이트 on 11?July. Suzanne Eaton, 59, was senior research group leader at 바카라사이트 Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, and professor at TU Dresden’s Biotechnology Center. She disappeared?after going for a run on 2?July. “We are devastated by this senseless tragedy,” 바카라사이트 Max Planck Society . The society’s president, Martin Stratmann, had written a personal letter to Professor Eaton’s husband to pay tribute to her “as an outstanding scientist and a?wonderful human being”, it added.

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