Afternoon Update: Dickinson State U. president quits after mass resignation of nursing professors

Historians and their lanes; anti-DEI steps at eight Utah colleges; Pennsylvania creates higher-ed board; professor can return to classroom; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Afternoon Update Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. LEADERSHIP [Dickinson State U. President Quits After Mass Resignation of Nursing Professors]( The North Dakota university’s leader, Stephen D. Easton, said in a [4,500-word statement]( that the state’s Board of Nursing had barred him from replacing the faculty members. Because “fighting for students” is central to his job and he can’t do that, he said, he is resigning “after a short and orderly transition.” The professors [quit over plans]( to expand their workload. (KFYR, The Dickinson Press) ADVERTISEMENT [Dickinson State U. President Quits After Mass Resignation of Nursing Professors]( THE REVIEW [Are Historians Out of Their Lane?]( By Len Gutkin [STORY IMAGE]( Plus: summer reading, from the Chronicle staff. JUST UPDATED [Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI]( By Erin Gretzinger and Maggie Hicks [STORY IMAGE]( We have updated our database of ways colleges are dropping their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to include changes at eight colleges and universities in Utah. IN THE STATEHOUSE [Under New Budget, Pennsylvania Creates Scholarships and Higher-Ed Planning Boards]( The 2024-25 budget, which Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, signed on Thursday night, will offer scholarships for “in-demand careers” such as teaching and nursing. It will also set up a State Board of Higher Education, to promote affordability and quality, and a Performance-Based Funding Council, to recommend changes for Penn State, Pitt, and Temple Universities. (Lancaster Online) FACULTY SPEECH [Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Will Return to Classes This Fall]( Jodi Dean, a tenured politics professor at the New York institution, was [removed from the classroom]( in April after she wrote an essay praising [Palestinian resistance to Israel](. The president said students may have felt threatened by Dean’s “repugnant” comments. But after an inquiry found the essay was not harassing or discriminatory, she can resume teaching. (Finger Lakes Times, The Chronicle) INTERNATIONAL [Court Voids Last Conviction of Kansas Researcher in Case Arising From China Initiative]( Feng (Franklin) Tao, a former engineer at the University of Kansas, was convicted in 2022 not of espionage under the [now-defunct China Initiative]( but of lying about his work with Fuzhou University. The judge sentenced him to time served. Now a federal appeals court has ruled that there was no evidence that Tao’s failure to disclose a conflict of interest mattered. 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