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The article explores the ramifications of legalized sports betting on college campuses, examining concerns regarding student gambling addiction, the pervasive influence of advertising, and the ethical considerations surrounding institutional collaborations with the sports-betting industry. It delves into the prevalence of sports betting among college students, the challenges faced by colleges in navigating this landscape, and the potential impact on student athletes.

The article explores the surge of extremism and exclusion on college campuses, exemplified by recent events related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It highlights the challenges posed by radical ideologies and emphasizes the importance of defending liberal principles to counteract polarization. It calls for proactive measures from campus leaders to address these issues and safeguard the integrity of higher education institutions.

The article focuses on the evolving interpretation and misuse of the Kalven Report, originally intended to safeguard faculty academic freedom. It discusses how the report is now being used to advocate for institutional censorship and legislative interference on college campuses, emphasizing the importance of preserving academic autonomy and shared governance principles.

The article discusses the challenges that administrators in higher education face when dealing with data. Topics include the importance of understanding what data to collect, seeking expert input in data collection and analysis, and the steps campus leaders can take to enhance their data-driven decision-making skills.

The article offers information on a case involving discrimination on a college campus based on sex, where a retired professor accused the University of Minnesota of excluding males from a summer camp. It discusses that the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights investigated and found discrepancies in the program's marketing materials; and leading to changes in the program's website but not its name or visual representation.

The article focuses on the problematic nature of "bias-response teams" (BRTs) on college campuses, encourages anonymous reporting but are criticized for potential abuses and chilling effects on free speech. Topics include the rise of these teams over the last decade; their intended purpose of supporting students who experience discomfort over identity-related incidents; and concerns surrounding their effectiveness in promoting inclusivity while potentially suppressing open dialogue.

The article offers information on Finlandia University's financial challenges and the arrival of Timothy Pinnow as its new president, who was aware of the institution's difficult financial situation but believed he could make a positive impact. Topics include the university's struggle due to budget cuts and enrollment issues; Pinnow's experience in developing new programs and generating revenue; and his personal connection to the campus from his youth.

The article focuses on a tragic shooting incident that occurred at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina on August 28, 2023. It involves the fatal shooting of a scientist, Professor Zijie Yan, allegedly by a graduate student, Tailei Qi. It also highlights the broader context of gun-related violence on college campuses in the U.S.

The article highlights a parent-led group's efforts to combat antisemitism on college campuses, emphasizing their advocacy through mass mobilization and targeted actions. It also discusses the group's impact on campus policies and its contentious relationship with academic freedom and free speech.It underscores the group's proactive stance in influencing institutional change while navigating debates over the limits of free expression in educational settings.

The article focuses on the evolving dynamics of campus protests, particularly the shift in discourse surrounding student safety and free speech on university campuses. It discusses how the traditional narratives of campus activism have changed over the years, with the current wave of protests being framed as responses to what is perceived as an undemocratic university environment.

The article focuses on the complexities and challenges of student protests, particularly those taking place on contemporary university campuses. It draws parallels between today's student activists and those from the 1960s, highlighting the inherited tendencies and problematic aspects of both eras. It critiques the uncritical idealization of student protesters and emphasizes the need to support them while also addressing the flaws in their approaches and ideologies.

The article focuses on the increasing prevalence of accusations of bias and scholarly self-censorship in academia, particularly concerning controversial subjects. It highlights instances where conservative perspectives feel marginalized or silenced within academic environments. It references examples such as legislative actions in Florida and congressional hearings raising concerns about diversity of thought on campuses.

The article focuses on the challenges faced by colleges in relation to free speech, the overhaul of speech policies in response to protests about the Israel-Hamas war, and the increased scrutiny of college leaders due to accusations of antisemitism on campus. It also highlights how some colleges have responded by revising, changing, or adding new speech policies.

The article focuses on the efforts made by the Florida State University System to attract Jewish students and create a safe and welcoming environment for them. It includes a new scholarship for transfer students who have experienced antisemitic incidents on campus. It is reported that the university system's president, Marshall Criser III, emphasizes their commitment to Jewish students and ensuring they have a great experience in the system.

The article focuses on the challenges faced by campus leaders in maintaining their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the face of legislative restrictions. It highlights specific instances, such as the closure of the LGBTQ Center at the University of North Florida due to a law banning DEI programs not mandated by federal law.

The article delves into the rising trend of hyperbolic style in American academia, focusing on exaggerated rhetoric, alarmist language, and the conflation of speech with violence. It examines cases like accusations of antisemitism, debates over academic freedom, and the impact of hyperbolic discourse on campus culture, highlighting the complexities and controversies surrounding free speech, harm, and identity politics in higher education.

The article offers information on Ronald Reagan's criticisms of higher education during his tenure as California's governor in 1967. Topics include Reagan's strong condemnations of behavior on university campuses, his portrayal of universities as straying from standards of decency, and his use of such criticisms for political gain.

The article focuses on the complexities surrounding colleges' efforts to address and combat antisemitism, highlighting the challenges in defining antisemitism, ensuring the safety of Jewish students, and balancing free speech with the prohibition of harassment on campus. Topics include the pressure on leaders to respond to incidents of antisemitism, the formation of task forces to address the issue, and the contentious debates over how to discipline students involved in antisemitic incidents.

The article focuses on the ideological shifts in elite colleges over the past decade, particularly examining the impact of campus activism on issues such as free speech, diversity, and inclusion. Topics include the congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, the rise of ideological confrontation on campuses, and the influence of events like the Yale Halloween Costume Controversy and the protests following the murder of George Floyd in shaping campus culture and discourse.

The article offers information on the decades-long use of race-conscious admissions policies in selective colleges to enhance campus diversity in the U.S. Topics discussed include the enduring debates surrounding this practice and the anticipation of the Supreme Court, now with a 6-to-3 conservative majority, bringing an end to these policies in the near future; the history of debates surrounding these policies over several decades; and the imminent potential shift in the practice.

The article discusses the contentious landscape surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on college campuses, acknowledging criticisms and legislative efforts to limit such programs. Topics include the need for a nuanced approach to DEI that balances concerns about academic freedom, the importance of clarifying DEI terms and principles, and the necessity to assess and adjust DEI efforts based on evidence and impact.

The article focuses on the increasing trend of college students choosing to abstain from alcohol and the need for college campuses to adapt and provide supportive environments and resources for these students.

The article focuses on the increasing opposition by lawmakers towards colleges' diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Topics include legislative measures that aim to limit DEI initiatives, challenges faced by colleges in implementing DEI policies, and the potential impact on campus diversity and inclusivity.

The article focuses on the concept of a healthy campus and provides insights into what it entails; other topics include creating a sense of belonging, prioritizing mental health and well-being, and fostering a supportive and inclusive community on college campuses.

The article discusses the impact of U.S. president Donald Trump's election win on the University of Washington's campus. It highlights the effect on the head of the university's chapter of the College Republicans, Jessica Gamble where she faced opposition while speaking in the favor of moderate conservatism in the campus. It also highlights the situation where she received racist subjected emails.

The article focuses on rumors of an investigation into gay people on campus. Topics include examines the man seemed official, and he had been looking at Copleston for some time and considered to produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program and Copleston would soon learn how prescient that warning was.

The article focuses on the goal to intervene before violence occurs by responding to warning signs such as mental-health challenges or basic needs not being met. Topics include examines experts stated there are two schools of thought when it comes to the teams and in one model, the teams focus on students who pose real threats to their own safety or campus safety as a whole.

If you're planning a new building, consider design features that will help bring in income beyond the school year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The survey, sponsored by the Association of American Universities, prompted more hiring for Title IX offices and other shifts to improve how campuses respond to reports of sexual misconduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the question asked by Steven A. Sviggum, vice chair of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents, about the Morris campus, the University of Minnesota, Morris. It further discusses about too diverse of a campus; becoming too diverse for a student to attend the campus; and also mentions that diversity might be a marketing problem for the Morris campus, drawing pushback.

The article reports that University of Wisconsin in protest of a survey on free speech the Wisconsin system plans to students. Topics include Student Perceptions of Campus Free Speech Survey, which the Wisconsin system mentioned it will start administering; and campus have raised questions concerning the survey's potential misuse by Republican legislators with politics surrounding free-speech points in public increased schooling.

The article shares the her experience with racism in her interview for a tenure-track position in creative nonfiction at Mississippi State University. Topics include recommends college campuses adopt proactive approaches by constantly pursuing creative ways to recruit; and connect with scholars to build new relationships exposed to the college through a postdoctoral fellowship.

The article focuses on Berkeley officials, who provided their updated predictions hours after the California Supreme Court decision had been released and thousands of students being turned away had been widely reported as inevitable. Topics include considered that they said their earlier predictions did not take into account the number of students who would be physically off campus and would not be included in the capped fall campus headcount.

The article discusses that many colleges have highly vaccinated populations despite the increasing number of COVID-19 infections on college campuses. According to experts, it is a stage of new normal in which COVID-19 is endemic, infecting people at lower levels and with less-catastrophic results. The experts cited several reasons that colleges should continue to take measures to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, including masking and testing.

The article examines the online education programs developed by Southern New Hampshire University. The author explains how the university has combined the techniques of for-profit and nonprofit institutions in order to improve its financial situation. Professors' negative attitudes toward the online learning efforts are explained, with the author emphasizing anger over the faculty hiring process and online course quality. The threat posed by online education to the success of traditional campus-based public universities is also detailed. It is noted that many of these programs are associated with adult education.

The article offers information related to Tennessee State University theater. It is noted that administrators at the historically Black university had failed to meet a deadline to respond to students' demands for modern dorms, reliable hot water and safe lighting. It is noted that the university is once again facing hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance, leaving parts of its campus crumbling.

The article discusses the report "Academic Year 2021-22: Are College Campuses Ready?" based on a spring-2021 survey of 140 senior administrators produced by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. It is noted that the report is focused on supporting student well-being and developing meaningful diversity and inclusion strategies to prioritize college affordability, student-support needs and student protests.

The article examines that campus was in the grip of a damaging scandal that challenged UNC's core identity as a university that excelled in both athletics and academics. Topics include examines that series of phantom courses had sprung up in the university's department of African and Afro-American studies, and been used by athletes to keep their grades up.

The article discusses how college campuses are in need of repairs and maintenance, but many are finding it difficult because of budget tightening. The article explains that the impending energy crisis in the United States and an unstable economy, combined with infrastructure repairs needed in other public spaces, may squeeze the state budgets that public colleges rely on for repairs and maintenance. The article discusses how financial donors to colleges and universities often times want the money to go towards new buildings and things of that nature, while the donors do not want the money going towards sewer pipe and less glamorous needs.

The article focuses on the lack of graduates in the U.S. who are not fluent in "critical languages." Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, colleges have been struggling to respond to demands from the government, businesses and students for more teaching of the Arabic, Mandarin and Persian languages. The federally funded National Flagship Language Program was created in an effort to meet the demands. Another approach is intensive language instruction in grade school which hopes to produce high-school graduates ready to enter college with the language skills equal or higher than those who have finished a foreign language undergraduate degree.

The article presents a list of 50 buildings that are examples of new buildings, renovation projects, and outdoor spaces completed on college campuses during 2006. Hollins University's Swannano Hall renovation added an elevator, air-conditioning, faculty offices, classrooms, and seminar rooms, while maintaining the building's historic integrity. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor's Weill Hall serves as the southern gateway to the Ann Arbor campus. The building was intended to bring the school's programs together under one roof, and it features a light-filled great hall, a library, a 200-seat auditorium, a 100-seat lecture hall, classrooms, and student and faculty lounges.

The article looks at survey of more than 350 college presidents and provosts on anonymous respondent compared planning a mid Covid-19 to "nailing Jell-O to the wall." It mentions returning to campus would also mean having to plan for a number of contingencies and planned to rely on hybrids of face-to-face and online classes. It also mentions elaborate planning for social distancing and temperature taking might be swept away by a spike in infections or a state decree.

The article discusses the suicide prevention strategy of means restriction and examines its potential use as an additional way in which universities can limit the potential for students to attempt suicide. Particular focus is given to a lawsuit against Cornell University by Howard I. Ginsburg in which he argues the university should have installed barriers on its campus bridge where his son Bradley committed suicide in 2010. Comments regarding the case are provided by higher education law consultant Gary M. Pavela and data related to the use of means restriction on college campuses is provided. Additionally, suicide prevention policies on college campuses that focus on counseling are discussed.

The article reports on a growing trend among colleges in Europe, the U.S., and Canada wherein the lack of available parking spaces on campus has caused problems for students, teachers, and administrators. According to the article, the planning for options for parking automobiles has not kept up with the rising student enrollment and employee hiring at many college campuses. The role played by parking problems in the decisions by former University of Connecticut teacher Mary Lou Rylands-Isaacson to retire early and former Dalhousie University professor Dan Middlemiss to resign from his post are mentioned.

The article presents information on a significant rise in serious injuries on U.S. college and university campuses between the mid 1980s and 2006. It reports that, during that same time period, government inspections of workplaces, particularly academic employers, and enforcement of occupational safely rules fell sharply. The author attributes the decrease in inspections partially to an increase in institution-supported health and safely departments; he also notes that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) works with different states to different degrees, depending on each state's legislation.

The author discusses his belief that a campus's architecture is an edited statement of the institution's self image, how it solves problems, and how it wishes to present itself to its students, alumni, faculty members, and the public. It is the author's belief that universities & colleges need to take great care in the design of their campuses, and create meaning in the school's architectural layouts. The author asserts that architectural forms project meanings in three ways: through symbols, through relationships, and through context. The author breaks down how each of the three architectural meanings can be expressed on a college campus.

The article reports on the U.S. President Donald Trump administration agreed to rescind a visa policy that would have forced international students to enroll in in-person classes or leave the country. It mentions that many students, especially those with health conditions return to their home countries in the middle of a global pandemic or risk their health returning to campus. It also mentions the pushback to the policy from higher education was immediate and fierce.

The article reports that presidents in the California community-college system have formed a new partnership with the University of Southern California's Race and Equity Center, pledging action and financial commitments to diversity on their campuses. It mentions widespread outrage over the killing in police custody of George Floyd, colleges have scrambled to respond in a way that feels genuine in an emotionally charged moment.

The article focuses on how college campuses will operate in the fall threatened to drive prospective college students to reconsider their options for the coming semester due to COVID-19 pandemic. It mentions colleges have also made it easier for students to request more financial aid, and have created new, virtual ways to engage families, promote their campus, and answer the myriad questions about safety. It also mentions importance of retention.

As the pandemic wears on, expect heavier teaching loads, more service requirements, and more time online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]