by Brody Truce Senior Staff Writer After nearly 35 years of service, Myrtle White was dismissed from her position as residence hall custodian on grounds of incivility towards students on the third floor of Watson Hall, a co-ed floor housing 42 students at Eastern Maryland College. According to residents of the floor, Miss White—lovingly referred [...]

Many universities have followed the lead of the University of South Carolina by implementing institutional values statements like the Carolinian Creed. One courageous college president, Bryan Gossinger of Des Moines State University, asked his faculty governance board to look carefully at its statement to check for accuracy. In response, the faculty senate voted to add [...]

In response to an incident of cultural insensitivity, Madden College president Laurel Stanford charged a committee of administrators and students to review and revise the institution’s honor code. The committee thought it had drafted a progressive standard of respect with its first draft, commonly known as the “Don’t Say Anything that Could Possibly Hurt Someone [...]