Afternoon Update: How academic fraudsters get away with it (opinion)

Planning for ChatGPT in your class; Supreme Court rebuffs Apple in Caltech's billion-dollar lawsuit; professor who posed with skull to quit; and more. ADVERTISEMENT ?wlbelineID=1633674 [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](. THE REVIEW | OPINION [How Academic Fraudsters Get Away With It]( By Andrew Gelman [STORY IMAGE]( Scientific misconduct is often rewarded. Until they get caught, these scholars are riding high. ADVERTISEMENT ?wlbelineID=1633673 RACE ON CAMPUS [What We Learned About One of Higher Education’s Most Ambitious DEI Efforts]( By Katherine Mangan [STORY IMAGE]( The University of Michigan’s DEI program cost more than $85 million to start up. Despite successes, Black enrollment has barely budged. ADVICE [4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom]( By Flower Darby [STORY IMAGE]( Why you should understand how to teach with AI tools — even if you have no plans to actually use them. VIDEO [‘The Science and the Beauty’: A Farm-to-Table Story]( [STORY IMAGE]( Colleges play a role in developing, supporting, and sustaining a movement. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [Supreme Court Rebuffs Apple in Billion-Dollar Caltech Patent Case]( The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to Apple and Broadcom, declining to hear their appeal of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by the California Institute of Technology. The two tech companies now face a trial over how much they owe the university. (The Wall Street Journal) FACULTY [San Jose State U. Professor Who Posed With Native American Skull to Resign]( Elizabeth Weiss, an anthropologist, had claimed she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains (which is [required by federal law]( and for posing in a photo with the skull. In a settlement of her retaliation and First Amendment lawsuit against the university, she will retire with full benefits after the next academic year. (The Mercury News, ProPublica) RESEARCH [University Is Ordered to Pay $430,000 for Concealing Videos of Animal Experiments]( PETA, the animal-rights group, said Oregon Health & Science University had told it that the videos — sought in a public-records request — had been destroyed. It was later revealed that the university had kept the videos, which showed prairie voles, a type of rodent, ingesting alcohol in tests of relationship infidelity. A judge penalized the university for violating the open-records law. (KGW) LEADERSHIP [Western New Mexico U. Settles Whistle-Blower Lawsuit by Former Finance Head]( Despite agreeing to pay $162,500 to Brenda Findley, a former vice president for business affairs, the university said it was in the right in the five-year-old case. Findley was fired shortly after she accused the university’s president of, among other things, having campus janitors run personal errands and perform household chores such as cooking and cleaning. (Silver City Daily Press) MOVERS [Fauci, Former Face of U.S. Covid Response, to Join Georgetown U. Faculty]( Anthony S. Fauci, 82, who retired in December from the National Institutes of Health, will teach public policy and medicine. (The Washington Post) FAITH [Belmont U. Rejects Event for Promise Keepers After It Issues Anti-Trans Post]( The evangelical men’s group had booked a venue at the Nashville university for a rally in September. But Belmont canceled it after the group’s social-media post on how “gender ideology” had “damaged lives, mutilated bodies, and torn apart families.” Belmont said such posts “unnecessarily fan the flames of culture wars and are harmful to members of our community.” (Baptist News Global) PRECEDENTS [Spokesperson at Liberty U. Invokes Hitler]( While discussing cultural battles over education at a policy conference last week, Ryan Helfenbein, the university’s communications director, said: “Education really is evangelism. If you don’t control education, you cannot control the future — Stalin knew that, Mao knew that, Hitler knew that. We have to get that back for conservative values.” (Inside Higher Ed) EVENTS [Browse Upcoming and On-Demand Virtual Events]( [STORY IMAGE]( Join a discussion with national experts and leading practitioners on how to navigate an uncertain future and what new ideas your institution can pursue. 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