Today's Clips (5/9/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Guided by the principles of complexity science and working collectively, innovation leaders can and should develop the frameworks that both speak to academic values and help all of us in higher education adapt to a changing context.
IN OTHER NEWS
A lawsuit challenging the University of Michigan’s speech police may serve as a nationwide model. PDF here: http://bit.ly/2jKAUFu

This graduation season, the podium is all hers.

The professor at Temple University has admitted to making some of the posts, according to the school, but officials said she denied the making one that disparaged Muslims.

Even the Condoleezza Rice panel didn’t wrestle with the idea of redistributing the revenue to the athletes who bring it in.

TRADES

Computer science students on a number of campuses complain that their departments can't meet demand. Their professors are also stressed. But experts say there is no clear fix for nationwide shortage of computer science faculty.

The university prospered under Lou Anna K. Simon’s leadership. But for many who witnessed that growth, the Nassar scandal demands hard questions about the consequences of that ambition.

In the administration’s most forceful counterargument to date, the provost says the faculty aims to “mutilate” and “neuter” a controversial cost-cutting proposal.

While some academics complained on Twitter about students’ using the alleged death of a grandparent as an excuse during finals, others said it’s time to respect students’ ever-more-complex lives.

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