Yet another generous insider trader causes a bit of embarrassment for an institution he endowed.
His lawyer says that systematically robbing the system by taking advantage of a position of trust is “in no way indicative of [the] overall character” of Donald Johnson. But heck. I dunno.
… an American University professor, looked at first like a random act of violence. Now an acquaintance of hers (we don’t yet know how close their friendship was) has been named in the crime. Police aren’t sure where he is, however. Probably Mexico.
… who murdered three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama and tried to kill three more, faces the death penalty in her upcoming trial.
Among mitigating factors [in death penalty trials] are the defendant’s lack of a significant criminal history…
Bishop will also go on trial in Massachusetts for the 1986 murder of her brother.
Why not? Why not blanket the nation with ads attracting unwary people to financial and educational doom? It’s a free country; and, after all, our non-profit education sector is not without sin … Why pick on the for-profit? If that industry – like the slave trade – wants to pay its people by the body, why not?
… is now up at Inside Higher Ed.
Just ten Canadian professors each year win the 3M National Teaching Award. Excerpts from a profile of one of them.
Ryerson University history professor Arne Kislenko … doesn’t use PowerPoint or any other technology. While he makes ample time for students outside the classroom, when lecturing he sees no problem with asserting his expertise over his students. In class, apart from presenting the occasional map, he rarely departs from straightforward lecturing. “Too many bells and whistles takes away from the orator, and I think the professor is the real conduit of knowledge,” he says.
… Kislenko’s lectures are full of emotion—injected with humour, irony, outrage and sadness, depending on the historical period he is discussing…
Q: What is the overarching theme in all of your books, and philosophy about life?
A: Happiness. I can define it in a thousand different ways. I knew if I could talk about happiness, then everything else would fall into place. When I tried to write about this 10 years ago, publishers turned me down. I was so ahead of my time.
Students at China’s Tsinghua University are upset that a campus building has been named after a commercial donor, Jeanswest.
At least they’re not the University of Louisville.
[M]edical societies and doctors with financial ties to Sanofi served as components of a coordinated public relations strategy to use FDA’s citizen petition process to prevent or delay generic alternatives to its blockbuster drug Lovenox from coming on the market… Every day that pharmaceutical companies successfully delay safe and effective generic alternatives to their brand name drugs by attempting to manipulate the citizen petition process is another day that Americans pay more for their drugs.
PharmaLive quotes a letter from the Senate Finance Committee to the FDA, asking that agency if it would please make an effort to find out whether people like Duke University professor Victor Tapson are in the pay of pharma (Sanofi seems to have given him almost $300,000) before taking into consideration their representations seemingly on behalf of the industry. (Tapson apparently did not disclose, in his representations, that Sanofi was paying him.)
Here’s a letter Tapson sent to the FDA under the non-generic gravitas of the Duke University name. (I found the letter via Paul Thacker at POGO.) I gather Duke is fine with being officially enlisted in efforts to restrict generic drugs in the United States.
There is no God but Tressel, and he’s about to be pummeled by a schismatic.
It’s unclear whether Dylan Boyd Devault sold hydrocodone to people at the University of Tennessee, but it stands to reason that he did. He’s been arrested in a drug sweep.
Why bother writing a new column every year? Go green. Recycle.
Take back your cash
Take back your slots
What made you think
That I’m so easily bought?
Take back the books
The Ayns and the Rands
I may be poor
But I’m not one of your brands.