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10 octobre 2017

Pulling Back on Title IX Enforcement

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Georgia’s state higher education board votes to pull the most serious investigations to the central office, a shift that angers many advocates for assault victims, who already believe the new policies are out of line with federal law. More...

10 octobre 2017

Will Students Stay Away From White Supremacists?

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Experts say they understand why university presidents want to keep people away from white supremacist events, but they have a tough sell on campus. More...

10 octobre 2017

Changing Orientation to Talk Charlottesville

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. After the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va., officials at Occidental College met and agreed -- the orientation activities for first-year students would be tweaked. More...

10 octobre 2017

Windowpanes Without Messages

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Ohio State University no longer allows decorations in dormitory windows, prompting student ire and a First Amendment debate. More...

10 octobre 2017

Appeals Court: Teen Can’t Bring Title IX Suit Because She’s Not a Student

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A teenager who said she was sexually assaulted while visiting Culver-Stockton College doesn’t have the legal grounds to bring a Title IX lawsuit against the institution -- a federal court dismissed her suit, and a court of appeals won’t overturn that decision. More...

10 octobre 2017

Socially Savvy Freshmen

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Despite the tendency to write off first-year college students as cellphone-obsessed and face-to-face relationship oblivious, they’re socially aware to a degree. At least enough to classify which friends they consider their most trusted and those they rely on just for a fun time, according to the results of a new study out of Stanford University. More...

10 octobre 2017

Fairness Questioned

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-WolfFew of the nation’s most prestigious institutions have created policies that ensure fair disciplinary procedures for students -- especially around sexual misconduct -- according to one prominent watchdog group for free speech and civil rights in academe. More...

10 octobre 2017

U Maryland Band No Longer Playing Pro-Confederate Song

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-WolfUniversity of Maryland’s marching band will no longer play the state song, a pro-Confederate battle hymn that refers to the Union as “northern scum.” More...

10 octobre 2017

Study: Success of a Coach Not Determined by Gender

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Female coaches achieve just as much as their male counterparts but are often disadvantaged in negotiating salary and bonuses, according to the results of a new study. More...

10 octobre 2017

UVA Minority Groups Demand Changes

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The University of Virginia’s Black Student Alliance and other student groups representing the campus’s minority populations have drafted 10 demands for the administration there, among them that Confederate symbols should be removed from the grounds and that the institution should enroll more black students. More...

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