A trial date has been set in the age-discrimination lawsuit filed against the College by former Assistant Dartmouth Football Coach Patrick O'Leary. The Valley News reported that O'Leary, who was a Dartmouth coach for 16 years, claims that he was dismissed by head coach Buddy Teevens after Teevens said he was looking for younger coaches. O'Leary is now a coach at Holy Cross and is demanding that Dartmouth pay $158,698, the estimated amount of money he lost from switching jobs. Dartmouth College's defense attorney claims that these charges are unfounded and O'Leary was not rehired after the expiration of a one-year contract. O'Leary's attorney says that there's a fair chance for settlement.
Princeton University has expanded its family-friendly benefits to graduate students in an effort to encourage women to take careers in higher education, the university announced Tuesday. The college will offer paid leave for doctoral students who have recently given birth as well as awarding grants for child care. The new policy will allow the primary caregiver of either sex to take an extra semester to complete studies, and apply for financial support. These measures are all designed to increase retention rates among female graduate students, where it is thought that many female students drop out due to the demands of motherhood.
The Educational Testing Service has canceled plans to introduce a new version of the Graduate Record Exam. A required entrance test for most graduate schools in the arts and sciences, the GRE is administered by the non-profit Educational Testing Service, which also administers the SAT and other standardized exams. The new version is intended to prevent cheating after the ETS discovered that students who took the test in Asian countries would memorize the questions and post them online. To correct this error, the ETS spent four years and $12 million to develop a new version of the GRE that would have an original test for every date, and increased the length of the test from two and half to four hours. The ETS, however, was forced to nix these plans because of the higher cost and difficulty in administering the test.
