every time there's an article about the rising costs of higher education, the source is almost always the insanely inflated salaries of the administrators and presidents. they get paid like CEOs and run colleges as if they are profit-making machines, instead of...I don't know, a place of education. it is in no way… Read more
Your tenure will get denied regardless of what HR says or does. It's career-killing dangerous to say something as a tenure track professor. This has got to be fixed at the president and dean-level, not HR. Read more
This is a FANTASTIC article! Congratulations to all these professors for risking their jobs to do the right thing. And a very specific congratulations to Cheyney Ryan. It's so important to have men on the right side of this issue. No matter how many women speak out (which we should keep doing, obviously), the… Read more
"Go to HR." Read more
I see no solution to this problem that doesn't involve threatening these institutions with the lifeline of federal education money. Given the retaliation against both faculty who support victims and the victims themselves, this doesn't change unless it is an existential threat to the university. Read more
I didn't have room to include this in the piece, but this quote from Kimberly Theidon is heartbreaking: Read more
I've never personally witnessed this, but it's unsurprising. Many women I went to grad school with were told by people in the department and HR people that they were getting reputations for being 'troublemakers' by pressing on harrassment claims. I've heard about department heads refusing to even deal with… Read more
I'm a grad student at Yale and I also fear retaliation. There is a lot of misogyny and unexamined sexism at work and I see female faculty getting ground down and exhausted because fighting it and managing self-preservation takes all their energy. It's systemic. Look at what happened with the Egyptology department. No… Read more
This is an excellent piece of journalism. Callie and all the Jez staff should be proud of what they've done here. I've been an outspoken critic of a lot of the stuff that goes on here but stories ike this are whyw e need places like Jezebel, to do this kind of reporting and bring these things to light. What makes me…
Everything about this sucks, majorly. But internally, the worst part is that I've apparently become so accustomed to shitty things happening to those who are survivors or allies - so numbed to the shock and disgust of it all - that the part of this that surprised me the most is that Occidental would risk firing a man… Read more
This is not surprising. I work at a very prestigious university in a department that is male dominated, and the misogyny runs deep. Anyone, especially if you are female, who does not toe the party line is subtly targeted. Complain about being harassed? Get pregnant? Expect to be slowly squeezed out by gossip, peer… Read more
They value reputations and sports more than safety of their students....mostly female students. They simply don't fucking care for you as long as they can raid your pockets with ever increasing tuitions and loans. American college system is becoming a joke. Read more
I've always been a little ambivalent about having gone to a women's college. But the older I get, the more I think it was the right decision for me. Sure, rape happens everywhere and women rape too. But there is something to be said for there being no problems more important than women's problems. And also, very… Read more
In institutions of higher learning nationwide, college administrations are silencing faculty for speaking out about…