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big time athletics enabled "Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus and football events"

7/12/2012: From the NYT on the Freeh report on Penn State: “In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university – Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley – repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse,” the report said. Paterno “was an integral part of…

Aide to Pres fired for messing with faculty governance

From InsideHighered.com: The University of Illinois announced Tuesday that it will pay $175,000 to Lisa Troyer to give up her tenured position in the psychology department at the Urbana-Champaign campus. A brief statement said that the university “has not initiated, and will not initiate, any disciplinary process.” Troyer moved to…

Johnson Hall contracts

I’ll be making a public records request for the 2012-2013 contracts for the usual Johnson Hall suspects, at the beginning of July. In past years these have yielded info on all sorts of interesting financial arrangements. Post a comment if there’s anything you are particularly interested in seeing. 6/27/2012.

College for whom?

6/18/2012: Robert Samuelson had a recent column, “‘College for all’ mindset compounds problem“, arguing that the US probably has enough college graduates, or close to it. But are the right students going to college? High math ability students from low income families have less than half the chance of attending…