…without it? And shouldn’t we use these metrics to determine institutional eligibility for participation in Title IV loan programs? The canard that only for-profit colleges and universities that offer vocational…
…status of dean, a title, I soon learned, that means very little except that the dean is a metaphorical hydrant on whom those above and those below choose to urinate….
…the title of the book implies to the kids that they live in occupied America, or occupied Mexico,” Horne said last week in a telephone interview. To defenders of ethnic…
Connecticut’s Quinnipiac College, best known for its political polling, is now at the center of the newest round in the controversy over Title IX and women’s sports. In a trial…
…colleges’ support for the men’s soccer teams and their players—the next generation of World Cup contenders—is in seemingly inexorable decline, thanks to the Education Department’s draconian rules for enforcing Title…
…a historian at UC Santa Barbara and Donald Cohen, executive director of the Center on Policy Initiatives. The title of the project reflects the belief that conservatives control political narratives…
…men. What they’re doing is perfectly legal, even under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bans sex discrimination by institutions of higher learning receiving federal funds. Title IX contains…
…of fraud, larceny, and identity theft. So I typed into Google’s search box the title of one of the three lectures that Wheeler, who claimed to know classical Armenian, said…
…as Title IX, which expanded college sports to encompass more women. There are no shades of Larry Summers in the AAUW report. It skirts the possibility that something inherent in…
…to sustain. Here’s a study in The New Educator that answers the objection. Authored by educators at Boston College, it appears under the title “Learning to Teach for Social Justice:…
…in America. My favorite title is one written by the late Cedric Belfrage, The American Inquisition 1945-1960: A Profile of the “McCarthy Era.” In his book, Belfrage told the story…
…Department of Education to encourage schools to comply with Title IX through the survey. Today, Vice President Joe Biden will announce a major reform related to Title IX compliance. Unfortunately,…
…compliance or not. In other words, the clarification did not establish new standards for Title IX, but rather provided detailed guidance for how a school could prove compliance with Title…
…for a Good Job or Do College Graduates Have to Know Something?” That’s the title of one chapter of my new book. And in an effort to illustrate the problems…
I was struck by the title of an article that appears in the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning, “Education Dept. Data Show Rise in Enrollment and Student Aid but…
…women in physical science and math that won’t budge past 20 percent, and the title of the report,”Why So Few?” But Carrier, like many female engineers and scientists I’ve spoken…
…Commission on Civil Rights that endorses surveying women’s interest in sports in determining compliance with Title IX. The commission’s report argues that “since female students are fully capable of expressing…
…had been subjected to continual sexual harassment and abuse by a public high school teacher, and who then subsequently sued under Title IX. Why such a ruling would mandate colleges…
…was warranted. So Dunn filed a complaint against the university under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination in higher education on the basis of gender (she…
…misconduct. With that rationale, administrators assert that if they do not act on allegations of verbal harassment or discrimination, they could lose federal funds under provisions of Title IX. This…
…Jewish and non-Jewish languages made it exceptionally useful to the study of “languages in contact”—the title of an influential book in the field. – Anthropologists were intrigued by the discovery…
…to Feminist Ethics” course. A Boston College senior, Duane Naquin, complained. Since Daly’s practices were a clear violation of one of the feminists’ favorite laws, Title IX of the 1972…
…narrowly upheld (for now) by the Court, this is not so with regard to faculty discrimination. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act applies to the latter and not…
…faculty”). While discrimination in the name of student-body diversity has been narrowly upheld (for now) by the Supreme Court, this is not so with regard to faculty discrimination. Title VII…
…for instance, a University of Chicago student was required to take down innocent photographs and censor the title of his Facebook photo album because a dean of students declared his…
…delivers them. Hence the discussion of a new report by ACTA. It bears the title What Will They Learn? A Report on General Education Requirements at 100 of the Nation’s…
…of the new hires are female, including six new full professors recruited from such prestigious institutions as Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Southern California….
…wanted to test the actual scientific and mathematical knowledge of the critics. He submitted a paper to the editors of Social Text with the title “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a…
…if it was a legitimate academic meeting or a highly partisan event posing as just another academic seminar. No need to wonder. The title of the conference reveals the all-out…
…explores “the uncertain future of Israel/Palestine.” I asked the co-organizer of the event, Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, why the conference title referred to “Israel/Palestine” rather than Israel and Palestine; she did not…