By 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...
Will Students Stay Away From White Supremacists?
By 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...
Changing Orientation to Talk Charlottesville
By 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...
Windowpanes Without Messages
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Ohio State University no longer allows decorations in dormitory windows, prompting student ire and a First Amendment debate. More...
Appeals Court: Teen Can’t Bring Title IX Suit Because She’s Not a Student
By 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...
Socially Savvy Freshmen
By 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...
Fairness Questioned
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Few 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...
U Maryland Band No Longer Playing Pro-Confederate Song
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University 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...
Study: Success of a Coach Not Determined by Gender
By 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...
UVA Minority Groups Demand Changes
By 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...