Departmental Reports

Transparency in Graduate Education Department: Scott Jaschik,"Can You Rank Crotchetiness?" Inside Higher Ed, 9 January, focuses on the AHA convention's discussion of transparency in graduate programs in history that featured our colleague, Tim Burke.

Surely-They-Didn't-Steal-The-Whole-Thing Department: FIRE's Speech Code of the Month features the Code of Student Conduct at North Carolina's Fayetteville State University. Among other things, it enjoins students against cheating and plagiarism. Unfortunately, the Code, itself, repeats verbatim and without attribution, at least a part of the University of Michigan code that was found unconstitutional by a federal court in Doe v University of Michigan in 1989.

Movin'-On-Up Department: The New York Times reports that Drew Gilpin Faust, the dean of Radcliffe Institute, is among the women who may be under consideration for president at Harvard. Thanks to Caleb McDaniel for the tip. Further south, Edward L. Ayers, dean of arts & sciences at the University of Virginia, has been named the new president of the University of Richmond.

Let's-Get-Real Department: Whereas, the University of Alabama blah-blah-blah; Resolved, that it should come out of its University-closet and declare itself simply a football team.