By Colleen Flaherty. Sociologists call for a systematic response to online targeting of and threats against public scholars. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Study suggests a big difference between how college men describe affirmative consent and how they apply it to their own sexual experiences. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Given that college campuses have been central to activism by the so-called alt-right, is it time for a campus-based countermovement? Scholars behind the proposed Campus Antifascist Network, or CAN, think so. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. More and more institutions are taking a zero-tolerance approach to harassment by faculty members. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Several recent studies suggest women have a harder time than men making career inroads in economics: female economists take longer to have their papers accepted by journals, for example, and they get relatively fewer tenure-track jobs. A new working paper is notable, then, in that it appears to shed light on some of the attitudes and stereotyping working against them. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Two vastly different disciplines consider whether there are too many journal articles these days, and whether graduate student publishing is part of the problem. Some see that analysis as shortsighted. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Cathy Davidson’s new book is a manifesto on teaching students -- and institutions -- how to survive and thrive in the digital age. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on critical media literacy, ground rules for a discussion and an understanding that students see sociology classrooms as somewhere to try to make sense of current events. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Kyle Quinn, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Arkansas, was mistakenly identified as a participant in Friday’s white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Va., The New York Times reported. More...