Maggie Kelly – Assistant Editor – The College Fix

Vanderbilt has 1 administrator for every 2 students: analysis

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 05:08:47 +0000

ANALYSIS: DEI commitment includes a recent $17 million faculty initiative, ‘identity centers,’ and more Vanderbilt University employs more than one full-time administrator for every two students, a College Fix analysis found. During the 2021-22 academic year, the most recent for which data are available, the private Nashville university employed 3,516 full-time administrators and support staff…

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Former Stanford president retracts ‘groundbreaking’ Alzheimer’s paper

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:01:37 +0000

Retraction is his fourth in four months Former Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned in July of last year after an investigation found flaws in his research, retracted a 2009 science paper formerly described as “groundbreaking.” The prestigious science journal Nature announced the retraction in a December 18 article signed by Tessier-Lavigne (pictured)…

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UVA tables decision to scrub first president’s name from library

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 05:02:52 +0000

Grad students accused the first president of the university of promoting racism and eugenics The University of Virginia deferred until next year a decision on renaming the school’s main library following criticisms that its namesake, UVA’s first president Edwin Alderman, advocated racism and eugenics. “It’s shrouded in secrecy right now, but I doubt that it will go through,” Tom Neale…

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Ohio State U. suspends pro-Palestinian group for posing risk of harm

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:54:29 +0000

Group used a logo associated with a terrorist organization An Ohio public university suspended a leftist group called the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists after determining its activities presented a risk of major damage to people or university property. Ohio State University spokesperson Dave Isaac told The Lantern, the school newspaper, that the group had been reported for several…

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Five ways colleges could course correct in 2024

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:02:12 +0000

End grade inflation, obey the law, freeze hiring of critical studies professors, and more American colleges and universities are among the world’s richest and most powerful institutions. They can afford to do what they want, even if it violates common sense, standards of excellence, or even sometimes the law. But legislators, donors, and alumni can still make a difference…

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Five things that went right for higher ed in 2023

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 05:02:36 +0000

Donors and alumni took a stand, the Supreme Court banned affirmative action, and more Confidence in higher education continued to plummet in 2023. In June, only 36 percent of those polled by Gallup said they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in colleges and universities, compared to 57 percent in 2018. In October, onlookers condemned elite universities’ initial non-response…

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Philly university ordered to pay $15M to doctor for anti-male bias in Title IX case

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:02:34 +0000

Male doctor and female subordinate each opened Title IX investigations A Philadelphia university must pay $15 million to a male doctor after a jury found it had discriminated against him based on gender in a Title IX investigation. On Dec. 11, a jury entered the judgment against Thomas Jefferson University based on its decision in favor of the plaintiff, former Rothman Orthopaedic Institute…

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Harvard withholds racial demographics of Class of 2028 early admits

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:43:36 +0000

Legal experts said the decision likely was ‘politically motivated’ Harvard University did not release data on the racial demographics of students accepted via early admission to the Class of 2028, breaking the precedent from last year. The Harvard Crimson reported on Dec. 14 that “this year’s early admissions cycle marks the first in which race was not considered in Harvard’s admissions…

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‘Grave concern’: Soviet-educated professor resigns association membership over DEI statements

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:45:11 +0000

‘Only true conformists excel in this game,’ mathematics professor said A professor who grew up under the Soviet Union resigned his membership in the American Mathematical Society due to the group’s failure to oppose DEI statements as a requirement for job applications. Alexander Barvinok, a Russian emigrant and tenured mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, told The Atlantic in a…

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Elon Musk plans new university, invests $100M

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:00:11 +0000

The IRS approved Musk’s funding application in March Elon Musk plans to launch a STEM-focused primary and secondary school and a new university in Austin and has allocated $100 million to the effort. The tech billionaire and owner of X filed an application with the Internal Revenue Service to establish an elementary and high school dedicated to science, technology, engineering…

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