A Lack of Skepticism on the Higher-Ed Beat
Inside Higher Ed reporter Allie Grasgreen has a piece today lionizing the students who’ve filed Title IX complaints to minimize the already weak due process protections for students accused of…
Inside Higher Ed reporter Allie Grasgreen has a piece today lionizing the students who’ve filed Title IX complaints to minimize the already weak due process protections for students accused of…
…a need for more financial assistance. I contend, in what might be described as London’s Law, that easily available money for higher education in the form of Title 4 grants…
…the cultural Left. The paucity of the humanities today is reflected in the relatively weak and even non-existent form to which Wieseltier appeals. While the title of his remarks suggests…
…mandate through a creative interpretation of Title IX.) Volokh frames his post as theoretical; he doesn’t claim to address the specific campus context of the new standard. Yet, I’d submit,…
…higher than England.” Oh really (to borrow the title of Kimmel’s sarcastic sidebars intended to rebut different views of gender relations)? According to United Nations statistics, in 2010 the reported…
…“severe or pervasive” enough to create a “hostile, abusive, or offensive environment” based on sex for plaintiff and for a reasonable person, so Title IX (the educational analog) does the…
…bend its campus procedures even further toward accusing students. Smith and Gomez urge creation of a new Title IX coordinator, with an unspecified number of deputies; among the coordinator’s responsibilities…
…College students in their complaints about the school’s sexual assault policies. Second, a Title IX complaint has been filed against Swarthmore College, an institution widely considered a paragon of political…
…It is quite unusual for such a title to be granted to a student; Chelsea Clinton is still in school herself, working on her dissertation at Oxford (while also reporting…
…Labor and Pensions Committee, lambasted the industry as rife with fraud and “manipulation.” Like those at nonprofit institutions, students at for-profit colleges are typically eligible for aid–generally loans–through Title…
…UNC. For his article, the reporter quoted from two of the students who filed a Title IX complaint against the university on grounds that UNC was violating their right to…
…describes a loose coalition of student activists who have filed Title IX complaints in an attempt to weaken the due-process protections of their campuses on sexual assault cases. I’ve written…
…And are those now the only options? When a university hires a scholar whose title indicates his expertise in ideas it considers heretical, is it taking a brave step toward…
…of politics and war. But the new AHA study found that ‘war’ appeared in 11 percent of dissertation titles and ‘politics’ appeared in 7.6 percent of titles. By contrast ‘women’…
…most (unintentionally) hilarious paper title is “Aiding Israel: How The Iranian Media Bolsters Israeli Pinkwashing.” If only the Iranians didn’t publicize their policy of hanging gays, the perfidious Zionists wouldn’t…
…them. The response appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education January 28 under the title “An Undisciplined Report on the Teaching of History,” with James Grossman and Elaine Carey listed…
…investigation by a Title IX Coordinator did not substantiate the allegations. Nonetheless, the Title IX Coordinator counseled the respondent and discussed the incident with the respondent’s supervisor, who conducted training…
…depend on what the law says, rather than what some judge thinks is a good policy, and the most obvious law to look at is Title VI of the 1964…
…now stating that exposure to ideological courses and extra-curriculars isn’t so easily shrugged off by undergraduates as many have assumed. The title of David Gelernter’s recent book, America-Lite: How Imperial…
…their net revenues will grow less than inflation in the current fiscal year. It’s a reasonable bet that the actual percentage is substantially higher. The title, however, doesn’t really indicate…
…Young People’s History, for ages 10 and up, is their best-selling backlist title. A plethora of lesson materials is offered to teachers through the Zinn Education Project. At a Georgia…
…actions (even, remarkably, as the committee did have a hearing on Title IX, which the ex-OCR head had used as the legal justification for her mandate). The House Education and…
…history of the U.S. empire/national security state.” As Michael Moynihan has observed, the book’s fantastical portrayal begins with its title: “This isn’t,” Moynihan notes, “in any sense an ‘untold story’;…
…a 2006 Supreme Court decision holding that Title VII “seeks a workplace where individuals are not discriminated against because of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender-based status.” In short, it…
…published yet another report of Title IX supporters reacting in outrage to yet another new study arguing that “it may be a mistake to base Title IX implementation on the…
…decided that Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit racial discrimination in university admissions, even though it reads, “No person in the United States shall, on…
You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, or its title, but how about from an extended interview with the authors? On November 2, Inside Higher Ed carried such an…
…exhilarating experience. I mention this partly to reassure those intimidated by the book’s length, partly to mollify those put off by its admonitory title. At nearly nine-hundred closely printed pages,…
…denigration of due process paired up in a race to the bottom. The triggering event was a Title IX lawsuit–generated, Murphy claimed, by the Yale-OCR settlement–filed by her and another…
…a travesty of due process, but it pleases advocacy groups such as the Women’s Sports Foundation, the Association of Title IX Administrators, and Wendy Murphy (remember the Duke Lacrosse Scandal?),…