We are excited to be holding our 13th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL. We invite you to attend. Main Workshop: Monday – Friday, July 29 – August 2, 2024 Advanced Workshop: Sunday – Wednesday, August 4-7, 2024 What’s special about these workshops are the world-class speakers, who are experts in...
Getting tested for PCB exposure
Given the Poe Hall PCB contamination scandal, I’ve been doing a deep dive to try and figure out what the health consequences are for me. Unfortunately, the science is quite murky, because it is difficult to determine what is going on for people who have faced years of exposure to uncertain levels of PCBs. Besides skin disease, cancer seems to be the big concern. So I’ve done three...
2024 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials
I attended this over a decade ago, it was a great experience: Dear Colleague,We will be offering the IES Summer Research Training Institute again this summer at Northwestern University from July 15 – 25, 2024. I hope you have found the previous training you received from the Summer CRT Institute to be valuable. As a previous participant in the Training Institute, I strongly encourage you to...
Woke Joke Part 8: Supreme Court passes
I’ve been so involved in the Poe Hall scandal that I forgot to post that the Supreme Court, not surprisingly, declined to hear my case against NC State; they only take on a handful of cases each year. So this means my case will *not* move forward to trial. [UPDATE: I was in a rush to get this out, and left out the important “not” in that sentence when I first posted this. :)] I...
Historic vote of no-confidence at NC State: only 25% of Education faculty have confidence in the Chancellor’s leadership
Following my request, the faculty in the College of Education voted last Friday on whether they had confidence in the leadership of Chancellor Woodson, Provost Arden, and Dean Sztajn due to their mismanagement of the Poe Hall situation. According to the Technician, this is the first time a no-confidence vote for a Chancellor has ever passed. Here are the results: The results are grim: at best...
Evidence suggests NC State is preventing an independent investigation of Poe Hall by the federal government in favor of a firm under the control of the university, and University personnel are carefully couching their public statements to hide this fact
Point of information: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts investigations into workplace illnesses and is part of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which in turn is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, a federal agency. Thus, people can and have been using the two acronyms NIOSH and CDC interchangeably. This also explains why the...
The Provost and General Counsel deliberately misled the Faculty Senate about stopping the federal investigation of Poe Hall
To understand what happened, you first need some background on the alphabet soup of the agencies involved. When the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) receives a complaint about cancer in occupational settings, they typically steer the complainant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (commonly referred to as the CDC) because of the CDC’s expertise in this area. The...
I just called for a vote of no confidence in the Chancellor, Provost, and Dean of the College of Education at NC State
[UPDATE 2/7: I describe how the university shut down the federal investigation of Poe.] Here is the email I sent to the Chair of the College of Education faculty: Hi Cameron, I’m writing to ask you and the other members of the Coordinating Committee to schedule an emergency faculty business meeting this week or next via Zoom. The purpose is to hold separate votes of no-confidence for Chancellor...
How not to deal with pronouns as a professor
Apparently the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation at Taft College due to “misgendering”. What horrific events spurred the investigation? The student’s professors tried to use the plural pronouns but didn’t always succeed. It is understandably difficult for someone delivering collegiate-level instruction to remember to refer...
More coverage of my case in the media
The most interesting one appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education (reposted on Medium), where the author argued that activist faculty have screwed themselves. For many years the courts have deferred to academia, but political behavior by faculty and universities during the past couple of decades has resulted in a more interventionist approach: Unfortunately, universities are giving courts...