Tawdry Sex and the Decline of Yale
…high-profile cases of sexual assault and harassment came as no surprise. These cases forced a federal Title IX investigation last year. In response, Yale instituted some reforms. Yet it still…
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What Columbia Is Doing Is Illegal
…to weigh race, ethnicity, and sex in hiring. You shouldn’t have to be a math whiz to understand that Title VI does not equal Title VII. President Bollinger of course…
The OCR’s Newest Target: Xavier University
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has entered into its latest Title IX-related agreement with Xavier University. Unlike the OCR’s agreement with Yale, which…
Gender Quotas on Philosophy Panels?
…to do something about that. Its legal vehicle of choice is Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act, which forbids sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive federal funding,…
More Advice on Railroading Males in Sex Cases
…of the letter. A reminder of which way the campus winds are blowing comes in an email from the Association of Title IX Administrators–yes, the Title IX bureaucracy is bloated…
Science Quotas for Women–A White House Goal
…it would issue guidelines expanding the scope of Title IX to cover science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Extending Title IX from sports to math and science majors has been a longtime goal of the…
Anger and the Banality of Academe
…the publication in The New Yorker in January 2009 of a short poem, Alien vs. Predator. The title refers to the 2004 horror movie mash-up that united two franchises: the carnivorous Alien stowaway saga that began…
“Pinkwashing” Comes to CUNY
…The “pinkwashers,” alas, are making their return. The CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies recently announced a spring 2013 conference with the only-in-academia title of “Homonationalism and…
Yale Abandons All Pretense of Due Process
Yale and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights recently announced a settlement of a Title IX complaint brought by several Yale students alleging a “hostile environment” on the…
$301,000 to Study Gender in Political Ambition?
…said she hoped that it was not the title’s focus on gender that drew Flake’s attention to her study (though she noted that Congress is 83 percent male). But regardless…
A Reply to Jonathan Imber
…Imber’s proposal, for example, would require the wholesale rewriting of civil rights law. For example, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act would have to be scrapped since it bars…
An Ethically Challenged Black Studies Department
…S.T.E.M. Researchers in the ‘Hood’”; and a departmental graduate student presentation with a perfectly politically correct title: “A Prison-Industrial Complex Context for Morrison’s Beloved.” The student’s advisor, naturally, was a Group of 88 member….
Does Debt Discriminate Against Latinos?
…include such palliatives as enlarging the Pell grant program, keeping interest rates low, creating a STEM-focused work-study program, exploring the potential of Individual Development Accounts, monitoring “the use of Title…
Cheaper Student Loans–A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
…grants would have been very expensive. Pell grants did not cover rising college expenses, and Congress established various guaranteed loan programs (beginning with Title IV of the Higher Education Act…
The Insecurity of Black Studies
…Beautiful Struggle: Transformative Black Studies in Shifting Political Landscapes,” the title “represents perfectly what black studies is, a struggle in its relationship with the academy for legitimacy and to highlight…
Writer Purged for Causing Distress
…that benefited them,” has received a variety of minority-preference fellowships and has a forthcoming publication with the only-in-academia title of “Pan-Africanism in Theory and Praxis.” Most striking, however, was news…
Diversity Training: Useless but Mandatory
…of affirmative action is protected against retaliation by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 1981, and other laws, even when the affirmative action program criticized turns out…
The Notorious “Dear Colleague” Letter in Action
…Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.” This statement, of course, is simply untrue–the letter mandated that colleges adopt a “preponderance of evidence” standard. And the letter’s assault on…
Just as We Thought: “Holistic” = Hokum
…disparities may arise between the levels of academic merit of certain subgroups of students. This practice was specifically outlawed in 1991, at least in employment, when Title VII of the…
Rallying Around Che at a ‘Literary’ Conference
…institution upholding the hierarchy of the West. Melissa Keith, also of KSU, continued the anti-West, anti-imperialist theme by recycling 1970s feminist theory in her paper titled, “Defining the Erotic Mystical…
‘Totalitarian Tactics’ at Vanderbilt
…administration is doing. There is no consistency in its application. The administration is hiding behind Title IX in not applying the policy to Greek organizations, but Title IX in no…
Why Campus Mascots and Nicknames Are Under Attack
…in everything from banning fraternities (“wild drunken orgies exploiting hapless women”) to abolishing men’s sports teams to achieve Title IX gender equality (testosterone-besotted “jocks,” especially lacrosse teams), to one-sided anti-sexual…
The New VAWA–A Threat to College Students
…I am a former Education Department attorney who practiced education law for years, and I discussed why the Education Department’s guidance was legally unjustified under Title IX and federal court…
The ‘Inequality’ Movement–A Campus Product
…inequality centers bearing such titles such as Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy (Harvard), Global Network on Inequality (Princeton), and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality…
Tyler Clementi and the Anti-Bullying Panic
…liability contained in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Davis decision, declared that the school district had violated Title IX by failing to prevent anti-gay harassment (in doing so, the Education Department…
Andrew Breitbart: Tweeting Evangelist For Conservatism
…articulated, he thought, in the title and subtitle of his recent book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World. Though he was an agnostic, was raised by liberal…
A Funny Book about Worthless Degrees
…Boiled down to a few words, Clarey’s message is this: Do not under any circumstance waste your or your parents’ time, money, and credit rating to acquire a degree titled…
Why They Seem to Rise Together:
Federal Aid and College Tuition
…contributed to the growth of a vast and costly “diversity machine” in college administrations. Recent Education Department guidance documents have also made Title IX compliance more difficult and costly for…
Is This Professor ‘Distinguished’?
…But it’s shocking to see such commentary from a CUNY distinguished professor, the title Alterman has held for the past several years. According to the CUNY website, these appointments are…
The White Male Shortage on Campus
…faculty. Further, add the abolition of male-dominated sports such as wrestling, while adding women’s teams, regardless of demand, in sports like rowing, to satisfy Title IX requirements. And don’t forget…