Afternoon Update: Slamming the Door on Scholarship

What "woke" means; Temple U. reaches deal with striking grad students; SUNY-Albany professor says corporate inquiry led to ban from campus; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Afternoon Update Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. You can now read The Chronicle on [Apple News]( [Flipboard]( and [Google News](. POLITICS AND KNOWLEDGE [Slamming the Door on Scholarship]( By Karin Fischer [STORY IMAGE]( War and politics could make on-the-ground study of China and Russia difficult, if not impossible. ADVERTISEMENT RACE ON CAMPUS [What Does ‘Woke’ Mean Anyway?]( By Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez [STORY IMAGE]( The term is now used as a slam, but can you define it? THE REVIEW [‘A Black Professor Caught in Anti-Racist Hell’]( By Len Gutkin [STORY IMAGE]( Vincent Lloyd uses the C-word. ACADEMIC LABOR [Temple U. and Striking Graduate Students Reach Tentative Agreement]( The deal would offer the grad students unspecified pay raises, a one-time payment now, and free health insurance for themselves but not for dependents, which had been a demand. The 750 teaching and research assistants, who have been on strike since January 31, are scheduled to vote soon on the deal. (The Philadelphia Inquirer) FACULTY [SUNY Professor Says He Was Barred From Albany Campus After Corporation’s Inquiry]( David O. Carpenter, a public-health professor who often testifies against the Monsanto Company in lawsuits alleging harm from toxic pollutants called PCBs, says that after a Monsanto lawyer filed an open-records request with the university, it banned him from the State University of New York campus and offered him a resignation deal. (Inside Higher Ed) FINANCES [U. of La Verne to Pay $8.9 Million in Tuition Refunds Over Shift Online in 2020]( The California university’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit will resolve claims that its students didn’t get their tuition’s worth when the campus closed and instruction went remote at the start of the pandemic. (The Press-Enterprise) NEW DIRECTIONS [Trinity International U. Will Move Its Undergraduate Program Online]( Facing enrollment declines in the “new reality” facing higher ed, the Illinois university said it would end in-person and residential learning, except for its Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and its law school in California. (Christianity Today) CAMPUS SYMBOLS [In Vermont, a Law School and an Artist Fight Over Murals of Slavery]( Painted to depict the brutality of enslavement, the 30-year-old works are seen by critics as offensive and cartoonish. The school wants them permanently covered. The muralist has sued to block the plan, citing a federal law protecting artistic integrity. (The New York Times) COMMUNICATIONS [Vanderbilt U. Office Apologizes for Using ChatGPT for Email About Shooting]( After the [shootings]( that [killed]( three students and injured five last week at Michigan State University, the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Vanderbilt’s education school used the artificial-intelligence text generator to devise a message to the community. An associate dean later said that was “poor judgment.” (The Vanderbilt Hustler, The Chronicle) HONORS [Student Paper at Stanford Wins Major Journalism Award for Investigation of President]( The Polk Award, the first for an independent, student-run newspaper, recognizes its coverage of [allegations]( that [research co-authored]( by the university’s leader contained manipulated images. Theo Baker, who led the investigation, received a special award, the youngest such recipient ever. 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