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[ad_1] Michael J. Avaltroni, interim president of Fairleigh Dickinson University, in New Jersey, has been appointed president there on a permanent basis. Jeff Cox, president of Wilkes Community College, in North Carolina, has been named president of the North Carolina Community College System. John Dozier, institute community and equity officer at the Massachusetts Institute of …

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[ad_1] Alabama governor Kay Ivey has signed a bill barring transgender athletes from competing in collegiate sports that do not correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth, expanding legislation passed last year that introduced similar regulations for K-12 athletic participation. “Look, if you are a biological male, you are not going to be …

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[ad_1] Negative Rate My Professors reviews are common. But two highly rated Jewish professors say they received some uncommonly negative reviews: ones calling them racist. They said they found the timing curious. The day before, as reflected in emails provided to Inside Higher Ed, they had asked their college’s president and several of its Social …

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[ad_1] Boston University president Robert Brown issued a powerful rebuke Wednesday to students who shouted obscenities at this year’s commencement speaker, calling them “appallingly coarse and deliberately abusive.” Students at the May 21 graduation ceremony swore and jeered at David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery and a BU alum, chanting “Pay your writers!” in a …

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[ad_1] When California State University chancellor Joseph I. Castro resigned last spring amid accusations that he mishandled sexual misconduct allegations against a colleague during his tenure as president of Fresno State, CSU’s Board of Trustees ordered a full external review of the system’s Title IX reporting and investigation processes. The results of that review, presented to …

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[ad_1] Two years after Boston College’s undergraduate student government submitted a proposal asking administrators to implement a resource center for LGBTQ+ students on campus, the college is instead moving ahead with an unpopular plan to house LGBTQ+ resources in its existing intercultural center. That center, the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center—AHANA stands for people …

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[ad_1] Turnitin’s AI writing–detection tool has a higher false positive rate than the company originally asserted, according to Annie Chechitelli, the company’s chief product officer. When the product was released in April, Turnitin promoted it has having a less than 1 percent false positive rate. Now, the company has not disclosed the new document-level false positive …

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[ad_1] Facing a possible closure due to financial struggles, the King’s College in New York announced Wednesday that it is exploring a partnership with another Christian university that will allow it to remain open. The announcement, which did not name the potential partner, came on the deadline for TKC’s Board of Trustees to make a …

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