The Trump administration wants colleges to adopt a so-called race-blind (read: racist) approach to college admissions, effectively revoking an Obama administration policy that encouraged schools to consider race in the admissions process as a means of creating more diverse campuses.
He was boy. She was a girl who knew the password to his email. Can I make it anymore obvious?
In late January, it was reported that an incipient #MeToo movement in China was being targeted by government censors, with social media posts mentioning things like “anti-sexual harassment” being blocked or deleted. But the resurfacing one woman’s sexual assault story has been hard to suppress surrounding the…
Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are no longer eligible for in-state tuition in Arizona, per a new ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court. Currently, more than 2,000 DACA students attend Arizona state and community colleges and pay in-state tuition; the new court ruling holds that these…
Longtime Harvard University professor Jorge I. Dominguez said on Tuesday that he will retire after nearly twenty women told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he had sexually harassed or assaulted them.
College students who file sexual assault complaints with their universities are increasingly facing defamation lawsuits filed by accused students, according to a new Buzzfeed report.
Adjunct professors are having a very hard time paying their bills on their meager salaries. Profs are ending up homeless, increasingly relying on public assistance or taking on side jobs, including sex work, to make ends meet, The Guardian reports.
On Friday, the Education Department rescinded Obama-era guidelines on how universities and colleges address campus sexual assault, putting “interim rules in place,” the AP reports.
Town and Country dropped a fun little look into the wild and wooly world of sorority rush consultants, a job that I didn’t even realize was actually a job, and it is fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.
Don’t you just hate it when you roll up to the club and there’s no waterfall? God, I hate it. Where is the ambiance?!
In 2013, Ma’lik Richmond was one of two Steubenville High School football players convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl in a case that drew national attention. The case became a flashpoint for consent and accountability. It was also, many argued, another example of an educational institution who had ceded its values…
The seniors of Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Southeast, DC had much to be proud of at this year’s graduation ceremony: In a first for the struggling school (where only three percent of students met city-wide reading standards in 2016), all 170 students of the 2017 graduating class has been accepted into…
Incoming freshman were directed to find each other on Harvard’s Class of 2021 Facebook group, and in late December about a 100 of them broke off into a meme-sharing messaging chat titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.” Can you guess where this is going?
Donald Trump gave his first ever commencement speech to the graduating class of Jerry Falwell’s evangelical Liberty University on Saturday, a situation that was never going to be okay.
In 2011, former Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi collected $32,000 for a speaking engagement at Rutgers University. Today, Governor Chris Christie—our favorite unrequited lover of Bruce Springsteen—signed legislation inspired by Polizzi’s fee, which caps the amount New Jersey state schools can pay speakers at…
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, quasi-Libertarian and former quasi-ophthalmologist, is teaching a class next semester at George Washington University called “Dystopian Visions.” Unfortunately, I am not a student at GW and registration is closed.
In honor of the one year anniversary of Lemonade, benevolent, pregnant Beyoncé has bestowed upon the world the gift of the Formation Scholars.
Indiana University-Bloomington has adopted a new policy denying incoming student-athletes with a history of sexual or domestic violence into its sports programs.
Robert Leo Hulseman, the man who made all your beer pong marathons possible through his invention of the red Solo cup, died this week at the age of 84. This is a sad day for American culture.
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of a Stanford University graduate student accuses the university of ignoring multiple sexual assault allegations against one male student between 2011 and 2014. The lawsuit describes him as a “known sexual predator on campus.”
