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☆ Dartmouth’s President Is Censured by Faculty Over Protest Actions
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Stephanie Saul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College voted on Monday to censure the university’s president, Sian Leah Beilock, over her decision to summon the police to remove a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, calling her action harmful to the community and disruptive to the university’s educational mission. The censure motion was adopted by a vote of 183 to 163, according to Justin Anderson, a spokesman for Dartmouth. The close vote illustrated the division on campus over Dr. Beilock’s decision on May 1, made just hours after the encampment had been erected on the college green. At the meeting, Dr. Beilock defended her actions, saying that she believed there was a reasonable and credible threat of violence. Monday’s vote was believed to be the first censure vote against a president of Dartmouth in its 255-year history.

Persons: Sian Leah Beilock, Justin Anderson, Beilock’s, Beilock Organizations: of Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth

☆ Dartmouth’s Leader Called in Police Quickly. The Fallout Was Just as Swift.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Vimal Patel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As the police arrested student protesters at Dartmouth College, a 65-year-old professor ended up on the ground. Two student journalists, reporting that night, ended up arrested themselves. And a bystander, visiting his father who lives near Dartmouth College, found himself with a fractured shoulder. That was some of the collateral damage after the president of Dartmouth College, Sian Leah Beilock, took unusually swift action and authorized the police action on May 1 to clear an encampment that students had, just two hours earlier, pitched on the college green. Dr. Beilock, a cognitive scientist who studies why people choke under pressure, has been facing a campus uproar ever since.

Persons: Sian Leah Beilock, Beilock Organizations: Dartmouth College

Orleck and Tamari are among at least 50 professors arrested at campus protests across the country, according to a CNN review of police records, court filings, and news reports. (Since April 18, more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.) Officials from several universities where professors were arrested in connection with recent protests declined to comment on individual cases. All the professors, Blair said, were “expecting to get arrested.” Though Blair himself was not arrested, at least four other UCLA professors were that day. “I want to say some of my colleagues, particularly at Emory and Washington University, were treated much more brutally.

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☆ Universities Roiled by Protests Set to Hold Graduations
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( John Yoon | Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Dr. Orleck, 65, was zip-tied and was one of 90 people who were arrested, according to the local police. It was unclear what disciplinary action, if any, the arrested students would face from the university. In her message, Dr. Beilock strongly defended the decision to sweep away the encampment. As the police moved in, arresting students, Dr. Orleck said she started taking videos. Dr. Orleck, she said, was recording the police with her phone.

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☆ Why the SAT Isn’t Racist - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That’s three down: Last week, Brown University reinstated standardized testing as a part of its admissions requirements, following Yale and Dartmouth, which did the same earlier this year. For all that we have heard about how standardized tests propagate injustice, the decisions at these Ivy League schools are antiracism in action, and should serve as models for similar decisions across academia. Of course, for years, the leading idea has been precisely the opposite: that the proper antiracist approach is to stop using standardized tests in admissions. Many schools first suspended using them a few years back because their administration was too difficult during the peak of the Covid pandemic. All the way back in 2001, the University of California president Richard Atkinson was warmly and widely celebrated for eliminating the SAT from the schools’ admissions process.

Persons: Richard Atkinson, Sian Beilock Organizations: Brown University, Yale, Dartmouth, Ivy League, University of California

☆ Dartmouth basketball’s union vote is just a small part of the campus organizing wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team achieved a significant milestone last week when they became the first college athletes to vote to join a union. And similar to the 13-2 margin vote in favor of the union at the Dartmouth basketball team last week, the unions are winning these votes overwhelmingly. Organizing athletes still uphill battleThe vote last week by the Dartmouth basketball team rightly got a lot of attention as the first group of college athletes to vote to join a union. Dartmouth basketball players don’t get a scholarship, and the college has announced it will seek to overturn the union vote, arguing that they are not employees. Haskins and Myrthil said they hope the victory of the union vote at Dartmouth will spark union votes on many other teams, including the big dollar programs.

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☆ Dartmouth basketball team votes to join the first college athletics union
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team Tuesday became the first college athletes to vote to join a union, a significant milestone in the rapidly changing business for collegiate sports. The team members voted 13-2 in favor of the union, according to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversees union representation votes for private employers. The affirmative vote does not automatically mean that there will be a union for members of the the team. Dartmouth has already indicated it will appeal the decision by the NLRB to recognize the players as employees who are eligible to join a union. They are among the best paid union members in the country.

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☆ Dartmouth basketball team could become first unionized college athletes
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Basketball players at Dartmouth will get a chance to vote on whether to join a union, a potential breakthrough in efforts to unionize the lucrative business of college sports. The NLRB’s regional director in Boston ruled that because Dartmouth “has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men’s basketball team, and the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, I find that the petitioned-for basketball players are employees.”Dartmouth will challenge the finding, Dartmouth President Sian Beilock told CNN Tuesday. We believe our athletes are students,” she told Poppy Harlow on CNN This Morning. Professional sports is one of the most heavily unionized sectors of the economy, with athletes in all four major team sports played in the United States being union members. But there is less a question that those students are employees, since they receive W-2 forms and pay as their compensation.

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☆ A Top College Reinstates the SAT
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would again require applicants to submit standardized test scores, starting next year. Training future leadersLast summer, Sian Beilock — a cognitive scientist who had previously run Barnard College in New York — became the president of Dartmouth. After arriving, she asked a few Dartmouth professors to do an internal study on standardized tests. Like many other colleges during the Covid pandemic, Dartmouth dropped its requirement that applicants submit an SAT or ACT score. With the pandemic over and students again able to take the tests, Dartmouth’s admissions team was thinking about reinstating the requirement.

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☆ Opinion | People in Their 20s Aren’t Supposed to Be This Unhappy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I choked under the pressure of those evaluative eyes on me,” she recounted in a TEDMed talk in 2017. And in a career in academic governance, she prioritized students’ mental health. A few days before that address, Beilock was shown some data that confirmed her resolve to focus on wellness. It came from David Blanchflower, an economics professor at Dartmouth who has developed an academic specialty in happiness and well-being. But the mental health of young people has deteriorated.

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☆ Opinion: Vladimir Putin’s anxious time
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. He imagines a boy sitting “upon the high and giddy mast” of a ship tossed by wind and waves. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” concludes the king in Shakespeare’s play. Russia said that President Vladimir Putin was the intended target of a foiled Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin, an allegation Ukraine denied. The unfortunate monarch who was the last to own the original St. Edward’s Crown, King Charles I, was convicted of treason and beheaded on January 30, 1649.

☆ Nobody wants to be the target of mansplaining at work. Here's how to shut down the office know-it-all.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Mansplaining is still often a man's game, but it's something women can do, too. Studies suggest that mansplaining is more than a workplace frustration; it can have serious consequences both for companies and careers. Insider spoke with three workplace experts for advice on how managers and employees can deal with the office mansplainer. And if the mansplaining continues, you might need to shut it down in real time. Without an ally, it can be hard to put a stop to mansplaining as it's happening, Woolley said.

☆ Beyond the 'yips': Dallas kicker Maher faces mental battle in playoffs
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

On Friday he seemed to end speculation over Maher's future - for now, at least - telling reporters, "Brett has the ball." "The goal is to get back into whatever routine he's had in the past that has made him so successful," said Beilock. So they're really in the zone, if you will," said Perea. "The sad thing about all this, is that when you have an outing like that, people will doubt you," said Perea. Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Most career-change advice is superficial. Here's what you need to know about the challenges you'll face overhauling your work life.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Rebecca Knight | Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

If you're pondering a switch, you're likely hungry for advice. When your work life feels impossibly tedious, the prospect of a career change — learning a new industry, honing new skills, meeting new colleagues, and maybe even making more money — is tantalizing. If you're one of those people pondering a career switch, you're likely hungry for advice that can help you understand what the change entails. Yet Beilock cautions against talking yourself out of a career change based on fear. You can cultivate inner resilience and learn to view a career change with excitement rather than dread."

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