Afternoon Update: How We Started Tracking the Threat to DEI

Lawmakers seek more oversight of Temple board; no pay for striking U. of Michigan grad students; U. of Arizona professor gets death threat; 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](. RACE ON CAMPUS [How We Started Tracking the Threat to DEI]( By Adrienne Lu [STORY IMAGE]( Conservative think tanks created model legislation to dismantle DEI. Our reporters came up with a plan to monitor legislative activity in the states. ADVERTISEMENT ADVICE [How to Create Compelling Writing Assignments in a ChatGPT Age]( By James M. Lang [STORY IMAGE]( A recent book offers a road map to new kinds of assignments to inspire your students to write. GOVERNANCE [State Lawmakers From Philadelphia Want More Oversight of Temple’s Board of Trustees]( The legislators said three state-appointed members should be added to the board. Their proposal followed the resignation last week of Temple’s president, Jason Wingard, after just two years in office. Temple faced a [42-day strike]( this year by graduate students, and its neighborhood has been hit with a crime wave, including the shooting death of a police officer. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chronicle) ACADEMIC LABOR [No Pay for Striking Graduate-Student Workers, U. of Michigan Says]( Graduate instructors and assistants on the Ann Arbor campus must now prove they are working in order to receive their pay. The strike began last week over pay and other disputes. The university sued the Graduate Employees Organization to force the strikers back to work. (The Ann Arbor News) CAMPUS SAFETY [U. of Arizona Professor Received a Death Threat, Faculty Members Are Told]( The threatening text messages as well as the identities of the professor and the offender were not disclosed. The university’s president, Robert C. Robbins, said it was taking the threats “very, very seriously.” Last week he [accepted responsibility]( for a series of [institutional mistakes]( before the [shooting death]( of a professor last fall. (Arizona Daily Star, The Chronicle) CAMPUS SAFETY [Notre Dame Professor Who Supports Abortion Rights Has Faced Vicious Harassment]( Tamara Kay, a sociology and global-affairs professor, says months-long threats of violence, spurred by right-wing media, followed her expression of support for women facing unwanted pregnancies. She says she sought help, without success, from the university. A spokesman says it’s “patently false” that Notre Dame did nothing to protect her. (New York magazine) CAMPUS SAFETY [Man Is Arrested With Dozens of Weapons at North Carolina A&T U.]( The man, who was not connected to the university, was found with two handguns, a rifle, two shotguns, several hundred rounds of ammunition, a “makeshift firework explosive,” brass knuckles, a machete, a sword, a “blowdart weapon,” a crossbow and bolts, a hatchet, a stun gun, a dozen knives, a baton, and two “choking devices,” among other things. His intentions were not known. (WGHP) COLLECTIONS [Remains of Nearly 5,000 Native Americans Will Be Returned, U.S. Says]( The Tennessee Valley Authority excavated remains and artifacts as it built dams, and it later gave many of them to Southern universities. The objects, which were housed at Mississippi State and Southern Illinois Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, were [supposed to have been repatriated]( under a federal law enacted in 1990. 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