Afternoon Update: How diverse are college staffs? Here's the data.

Training interim leaders; Braudel and the audacity of scope; refugees in college; many professors flunk U. of Florida's post-tenure review; 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](. DATA [How Diverse Are College Staffs? Take a Look at the Data.]( By Nick Perez [STORY IMAGE]( We’ve just updated our statistical snapshots of minority employees in higher education, reflecting figures from 2018 to 2022. ADVERTISEMENT [How Diverse Are College Staffs? Take a Look at the Data.]( DATA [What Are the Demographics of Noninstructional Staffs at Colleges?]( [STORY IMAGE]( Statistics on the gender, race, and ethnicity of such staff members, including office and administrative support, business and financial operations, maintenance, and more, in 2018 and 2022. ADVICE [Time to Train Your Interim Leaders]( By Richard Badenhausen, Marcy Brown Marsden, and Clay Motley [STORY IMAGE]( With temporary appointments on the rise, how can higher ed position short-term administrators to succeed? THE REVIEW | ESSAY [Fernand Braudel and the Audacity of Scope]( By Robert Zaretsky [STORY IMAGE]( Remembering the great historian of the Mediterranean world. LATITUDES [Few Refugees Go to College. These Students Have a Plan for Change.]( By Karin Fischer [STORY IMAGE]( Plus, the Democrats’ vice-presidential pick has a longstanding China connection. JUST UPDATED [These Colleges Have Produced the Most Individual Olympic Medals in Paris]( By Amelia Benavides-Colón and Nell Gluckman [STORY IMAGE]( There’s a new tie for silver in The Chronicle’s tracker of which campuses have trained the most medalists at this year’s Games. Is your college on the list? TENURE UNDER FIRE [A Big Chunk of Professors Flunked U. of Florida’s Post-Tenure Review]( In the first round of such reviews, a fifth of reviewed professors — 21 percent of 258 faculty members — gave up their tenure, resigned, retired, or were deemed substandard, and thus liable for dismissal. The proportions were much smaller at the State University System’s 11 other campuses. The reviews, [approved last year]( by the system board, stem from a [2022 state law](. (Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle) IN THE COURTS [Gordon College Loses Religious-Liberty Case for Loan Forgiveness]( The Christian college in Massachusetts may have to repay $7 million in [federal Covid relief]( because it has more than 600 employees. Only groups with fewer than 500 workers are eligible for forgiveness, according to the Small Business Administration. Gordon sued, saying its religious liberties had been violated. A federal judge rejected that argument. (Christianity Today, The Chronicle) CAMPUS UNREST [Sanctions Against 6 Student Protesters at U. of Georgia Are Upheld]( The students, who were arrested in April at a nonviolent pro-Palestinian protest, will be suspended for the fall semester and barred from campus until January. They will also be on probation for the rest of their time at the university. The punishments are the latest against [last spring’s protesters]( that have [dragged into the summer](. (Athens Banner-Herald, The Chronicle) CAMPUS TRAGEDY [2 Contractors Are Charged in Death of Student From Carbon-Monoxide Poisoning]( Jonathan Rodriguez died in 2023 at Washington’s Evergreen State College, investigators found, because a negligently installed water heater allowed 20 times the maximum permissible CO level to build in his dorm room. The technicians who installed the heater have been charged with manslaughter. College workers had [turned off CO alarms]( on the assumption they were faulty. 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