There’s a growing gender gap when it comes to the youngest members of Generation X and college.
A federal survey of about 9,000 young men and women born during the years 1980 to 1984 shows a big disparity when it comes to higher education, with women a third more likely to have received a bachelor's degree by age 27. While it has long been known that women are outpacing men when it comes to pursuing higher education, the extensive study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlighted several numbers that show the trend is accelerating. More...

My theory of how students make sense of professors:  Whatever conception of "God" students bring with them to college gets applied to their male instructors.  Whatever conception of "Mom" they bring with them to college gets applied to their female instructors.  Students are, on the whole, more likely to accept that God will, on occasion, be angry, distant, vengeful, than that Mom will behave in these ways.  A Mom who isn't unfailingly nurturing is a source of dismay. Any characteristics (race, ethnicity, gender ambiguity, relative youth, disability) that complicate students' ability to assimilate male instructors to God and female instructors to Mom is also a source of dismay. More...

Le réseau Animafac met à disposition sur son site un kit à destination des associations étudiantes. Deux objectifs sont à retenir : sensibiliser les étudiants aux questions d’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes et faire évoluer les pratiques même des associations étudiantes. Le kit comprend un outil ludique sous forme de quizz visant à faire prendre conscience de « l’invisibilité des femmes dans l’enseignement supérieur » et un vademecum pour l’égalité qui propose une méthodologie et des recommandations pour aller vers plus d’égalité dans les pratiques des associations étudiantes.

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By Matthew J.X. Malady. I teach introductory creative writing at the University of Michigan, and I’d just finished this agonizingly detailed response letter to the 20th student story I’d graded in the last three weeks, and then I was printing out all this stuff at once and catching snippets of these sentences in my feedback that were just totally insane, about ghost cocks and specific apocalypse plausibility and whether or not so-and-so would have randomized her email before putting a thing on Casual Encounters, and all of a sudden I was just like, what am I doing? WHAT AM I DOING RIGHT NOW? More...