Scott’s Recent Stories
Education Aug 01
Report: Justice Department plans to target affirmative actionThe Trump administration plans to investigate and sue colleges and universities over admissions practices.
Education Mar 06
Middlebury students shout down controversial writer Charles MurrayMiddlebury students chant and shout to prevent Charles Murray from speaking. He later is led to a private location, where a discussion with a professor is livestreamed. After the event some attack car carrying Murray and a professor.
Education Mar 15
As protests increase, student demands get more ambitiousThe number and complexity of students' demands of administrations is going up -- and some of the items deal with issues typically left to faculty governance.
Education Jan 22
Oberlin president says no to black students’ demandsMarvin Krislov, the president, said that while some of the demands "resonate with me and many members of our community, including our trustees," he would not respond directly to the proposals from black students, which were termed nonnegotiable.
Education Oct 27
Can a professor be forced to assign a $180 textbook?The choice of a single textbook for one section of a course at one university might seem like a decidedly local issue. But a dispute over whether an academic department may impose such a selection on all faculty members in…
Education Sep 28
80 colleges plan admissions revamp to reach more disadvantaged studentsEighty leading colleges and universities are announcing today a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges -- largely through the Common Application -- have made their applications increasingly similar.
Education Jun 23
Should the Confederate flag fly in the Citadel’s chapel? Same law keeping it at S.C. State House says yesIn South Carolina, a state law governs the Confederate flag on the State House grounds -- a flag that has become the source of increasing criticism after the murders last week of nine people in a historic black church, apparently…
Education Mar 04
All-women Sweet Briar College decides to close after 114 yearsSweet Briar College announced Tuesday that it is shutting down at the end of this academic year.
Education Feb 23
11 Wesleyan students hospitalized after using ‘Molly’Eleven Wesleyan University students were hospitalized this weekend with symptoms consistent with use of the club drug known as Molly. One sophomore is in critical condition.
Education Jan 26
Yale police aim gun at columnist’s son, turn spotlight on racial profiling on campusThe debate over racial profiling -- already a hot topic on many college campuses -- gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student Saturday evening.
