Short Takes

Thanks to Craig Smith at FACE Talk for pointing out an article in The Washington Post about the frustrating realities of the tough academic job market.
Meanwhile, Women in Science tackles the subject of gender bias in the scientific peer-review system.
Dean Dad takes a closer and more critical look at the New York governor’s plan to hire 2,000 to 2,500 more full-time professors for the State and City Universities of New York. (Also see a related Associated Press article.)
The search for a new president of West Chester University of Pennsylvania has been called off, Jeffrey Selingo writes on The Chronicle’s News Blog. Read more.
And by way of Uncertain Principles comes word of another Washington Post article, on why diversity training is a failure.
An unnamed administrator at the Georgia Institute of Technology stole as much as $350,000 over a six-year period using a university purchasing card, Andrew Mytelka reports on the News Blog.