This seems like a rather similar situation to what happened here at Virginia Tech during President Sands’ speech addressing white supremacy.

I like your post relating to affordability in higher ed. A system of low-cost tuition may help increase college accessibility and equity. I believe there is low tuition higher ed system in place in some European countries. If such a system was implemented, I think the biggest question would be how to finance such a low-tuition higher ed system without increasing taxes on everyone. Nice post though!

This was really cool to read. I applaud her dedication and her focus to her mission. I hope that she is welcomed and enjoys Prairie View!

Here’s the link to the news story I was referring to:
http://abc7chicago.com/education/teacher-tells-spanish-speaking-student-to-speak-american/2539559/

What leads people to fake data or plagiarize research in any other way? when that starts? multiple times not being caught? I would like to think that if you have high principles, no matter the situation or the potential reward, you would not take the option to cheat. So it is likely that researchers like Meredyth, would probably have commited unethical actions previously, during elementary/high school, undergraduate, graduate studies, etc, at least I can’t imagine that it was her first time…a reason why ethics, but most importantly good family education should be present all they way

As a developmental psychologist, it is interesting that some people think that the need to feel safe is just for babies. Everyone of all ages desires and needs to feel safe. So to me dressing up as babies is almost insulting to babies. They depend on adults more than children and older adults do, but they are not unique in feeling safe. Super interesting post. Thanks for sharing!

I did a crappy job of reading this. He was published in Nature and Science. Both publications retracted his articles.

The fact that people fabricate data is astonishing to me too — I don’t know how they sleep at night and are not constantly looking over their shoulders. I agree that people who are found guilty of research misconduct should be fined. It seems that punishments for these types of crimes are lacking.

I too believe that GPA has it place. A prime example of the importance of GPA, in my mind, is for doctors. Would you rather go to a doctor who just barely got through medical school and passed his/her/their boards by 1 point or a doctor who got all As and blew the boards out of the water? I know what I would choose — its the one who has proved (in some capacity) they he/she/they are able to understand and retain knowledge.

True — why people make up data is beyond me. People become so overly ambitious that they lose site of ethical practices and good research. Did they revoke all of his papers in Science?