Straws in the Wind - Part 172

From the Daily Princetonian: A University Advancement database containing information about alumni, donors, students, parents, some faculty, and other members of the University community was compromised on Nov. 10, putting their data at risk of access by outside actors. According to [an] announcement from the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the breach occurred after outside actors targeted a University employee with access to the database through a phone-based phishing attempt. The incident began on Nov. 10 and was blocked within 24 hours.

The database compromised included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and home and business addresses, along with information about University fundraising and donations. It “generally” did not include sensitive information like Social Security numbers, passwords, or credit card and bank account numbers...

Full story at https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/11/princeton-news-adpol-university-data-compromised-after-cybersecurity-incident.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The leading organization for music scholars is facing an uproar from hundreds of its members, who are threatening a boycott unless it meets a chorus of demands. Researchers are accusing the administrative arm of the American Musicological Society of mismanaging the association by, among other things, paying back-office staff disproportionately high salaries and corrupting the peer-review process of its annual conference, which was held in Minneapolis earlier this month, according to a petition that started circulating soon after...

The discord comes at a fraught time for musicology and the broader humanities. Many campuses are eyeing cuts to low-enrollment humanities programs, and shifting federal priorities have also left a mark on the discipline. In April, all four of the AMS’s grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, totaling more than $363,000, were terminated...

In social-media posts collected on a newly formed website, several... members have written that they recently resigned from their roles on various committees over alleged disagreements or miscommunications with the administration...

Full story at https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-a-musicology-societys-members-are-in-revolt.