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More college students than ever are asking for special academic accommodations for their mental health issues. But experts are divided on the best way to help them. More »
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Recently, students in the Rutgers University English Dept. received an exceedingly crap email, inviting them to a screening of a racist Disney movie, where "Darkeyisms" and "watermillyum" were on offer. Now some students, understandably, would like an apology. More »
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At the nationwide philosophy conference where most new hires in the field are made, a cocktail party called "the smoker" is part of the hiring process. And some philosophers, especially women, would prefer that evaluation of job candidates take place in a less boozy environment. More »
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Yesterday, an anonymous law student sent an email to the Indiana University at Indianapolis law school community complaining that there were too many black men represented in the school's public materials. This, according to the email first published by Above The Law, forms a "situation of concern to me which affects us all." More »
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A group of philosophers say serial sexual harassers routinely advance and prosper in their field, and official university methods are ineffective at stopping them. Their solution: "informal shunning." More »
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At MIT, efforts to recruit and retain female faculty have produced big gains. But now women face another obstacle: the perception that the school's trying too hard to help them. More »
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Are Canadian universities "too Asian?" That's the question posed in a bizarre article that also swears "'too Asian' isn't about racism." So what's it about then? More »
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Journalism professor Daniel Reimold interviewed college sex columnists to find out what they wrote about, what drove them, and why they were such "rock stars on campus." After the jump, see what he learned. More »
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The latest in a series of disturbing reports on campus assault found that colleges and government agencies alike often botch rape investigations. One solution may be to keep rape from happening in the first place. More »
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NPR reports that the US Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether colleges are violating Title IX by favoring male applicants. But is such favoritism necessary to keep colleges from becoming "overwhelmingly female?" More »
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A distinguished, sixtyish writer arrives to address a graduate program. He praises another university for its "hot students" and disses his wife ("sleep with one student and wake up 17 years later married to her"). He says a female prof "eats like a man," and he seems to like the word "beaver." Sounds like a tale from the 1970s, right? Or at least the early 80s, when Naomi Wolf (at left) experienced sexual harassment at the roving hands of Harold Bloom? J.D. Nordell, writing in last week's Times, thinks so too, except it happened to her this year. Her experience with the Visiting Douchebag reminded her how lucky she is that his crap is no longer widely tolerated — and how unfortunate we all are that it still sometimes exists. More »
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