From the Brown Daily Herald: Brown is launching an initiative to support healing and recovery after the Dec. 13 mass shooting in Barus and Holley, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 announced in a Monday email to the Brown community. The initiative, called “Brown Ever True,” will bring “together resources, programming and services focused on mental health, psychological wellness and ensuring a sense of physical security for our full community,” Paxson wrote. Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Matthew Guterl will lead the team coordinating the initiative, and the Brown University Community Council will constitute the advisory body.
Paxson added that a “campus-wide service” honoring Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and supporting the nine injured students is in the works for late January. Interim Vice President for Public Safety and Police Chief Hugh Clements announced a slew of new safety actions Dec. 30, including the transition of key-access buildings to card-access and the installation of additional security cameras...
From the Yale Daily News: A Buckley Institute report last month on the predominance of Democrats on the Yale faculty sparked criticism from conservatives about political imbalances in higher education — and prompted an apparent response from Yale. On Dec. 1, the organization released its Yale Faculty Political Diversity Report, which reported that 82.3 percent of the 1,666 faculty members examined are registered Democrats or primarily support Democratic candidates. Of the remaining faculty, 2.3 percent were found to be Republicans with the remaining 15.4 percent not affiliated with either major party. Of 43 departments that grant undergraduate degrees, 27 had no Republican faculty members at all, according to the report.
...On Dec. 23, after the Buckley Institute report had been covered by several news outlets and received widespread attention online, Yale News released an unsigned “Statement regarding faculty political affiliations.” While it did not specifically mention the Buckley Institute or its report, the statement addressed many of the concerns that arose from the release of the report earlier that month. “Yale hires and retains faculty based on academic excellence, scholarly distinction, and teaching achievement, independent of political views,” the statement reads...
The Buckley Institute report took account of faculty members across the Law School, the School of Management and what it described as 43 “undergraduate degree-granting departments” at Yale. The institute used L2 Voter Data, a database of all registered voters in the United States, to determine each faculty member’s political affiliation, according to the report. For individuals whose affiliation was unavailable or unaffiliated, the institute used the Federal Election Commission’s campaign donation database. Faculty members whose affiliations were not accessible — 331 of the 1666 faculty members — were not accounted for in the final percentages...
Several conservative-leaning outlets, including Fox News, The New York Post and Campus Reform, which is described on its website as “a conservative watchdog in the nation’s higher education system,” covered the report’s findings...
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