Afternoon Update: Pomona College’s English department imploded. Now a professor is telling all.

MIT's Black enrollment plunges; a faculty survival guide; crafting a Title IX case against an abuser; librarians told to publish or perish; 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](. A POET BECOMES A PARIAH [Pomona College’s English Department Imploded. Now, a Professor Is Exposing It All.]( By Emma Pettit [STORY IMAGE]( Battles over money. Allegations of racism. A chair ousted. ADVERTISEMENT [Pomona College’s English Department Imploded. Now, a Professor Is Exposing It All.]( ADVICE [A Faculty Survival Guide for the New Academic Year]( By Kevin Gannon [STORY IMAGE]( Four ways to approach what may be yet another “unprecedented” year in higher education. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [A Historian Crafts a Title IX Case Against Her Abuser]( By Joy Neumeyer [STORY IMAGE]( A survivor’s education. LATITUDES [When It Comes to International Education, the Map Keeps Shifting for U.S. Colleges]( By Karin Fischer [STORY IMAGE]( A snapshot survey shows the latest trends in foreign-student recruitment and study abroad. ENROLLMENT [MIT’s Drop in Black Students Shows Fallout From Top Court Ruling]( The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said today that its new freshman class is 5 percent Black, nine percentage points lower than last year’s. The share of Hispanic students dropped from 15 percent to 11 percent. The numbers show the impact on selective colleges of last year’s Supreme Court decision that [banned the consideration of race]( in admissions. (Bloomberg, The Chronicle) JOINING THE CLUB [Louisiana State U. Changes Tenure Rules for Librarians to Improve Research Rankings]( The university system told tenured and tenure-track librarians that they must publish more research if they want to retain their status. The shift is part of LSU’s effort to join the prestigious Association of American Universities. LSU also said it would try to get the AAU to consider research conducted on all its campuses, not just the flagship, in Baton Rouge. (Louisiana Illuminator) CAMPUS CUTS [Cleveland State U. Will Lay Off 14 Staff Members]( The Ohio university is attempting to close a $40-million budget deficit that stems from declining enrollment. In a statement on Tuesday, Cleveland State did not specify which departments would be affected by the layoffs. The university already sought to cut its staff with buyouts. (WVXU) TECHNOLOGY [UC-Santa Cruz Apologizes for False Alert About Ebola That Was Really a Phishing Test]( The University of California campus’s information-security division sent out an email on Sunday that was designed to train employees to recognize scam emails. The test email seemed believable because it warned that a case of the lethal Ebola virus had been found on campus. 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