The $44 Million Verdict Against Oberlin
…only be open to Oberlin students (or, at least, preferred Oberlin students) who engaged in off-campus criminal behavior. Campus Atmosphere The most jarring comment to come from the trial was…
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When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities
…is only tangentially about college campuses. This is about a breakdown in the basic logic of civilization, and it’s spreading. College campuses may be the first dramatic battle but of…
Four Reasons to Support the DeVos Title IX Rewrite
…as opposed to misconduct. It is important that training not create ‘presumptions’ that the alleged conduct occurred or that a complainant’s account of the incident must be true.” All the…
Heather Mac Donald: In the Crosshairs of a Progressive Campaign
…title of the review is “Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Higher Education?” Got that? Conservatives aren’t dismayed at the identity politics of the campus. They aren’t disgusted by the…
Harvard Zealots Abuse Title IX to Nail the Accused
…Nor did Harvard University’s own Title IX policy cover the accuser’s claim. It applies to off-campus behavior only if “the conduct was in connection with a University or University-recognized program…
Debating the Lawsuit Against Harvard
…Discriminations. ROSENBERG’s article, “Harvard’s Strip Tease About Wealth and Race,” was published on Minding The Campus October 22nd . Stuart Taylor, Jr., is co-author of two important policy books: Mismatch:…
Campus Censorship Is Leaching Into Business and the Arts
…since he was above the age of consent in those states. As Reason’s Robby Soave notes: Argento’s alleged conduct does indeed meet the definition of sexual assault simply because the…
Race and Gender Studies Kick Shakespeare Out of Class
…chronicling. Mac Donald connects the diversity bureaucracy, the race and gender departments acting as Soviet commissars and arbiters of acceptable debate in campuses, the treatment of students as consumers with…
Comparing Seven Key Changes in DeVos’ Title IX Proposal
The long-awaited new regulations on campus sexual misconduct, expected to be fairer toward the accused than the Obama-era Title IX guidance policies they will replace, were leaked to The New…
Five Myths and Outright Lies About Campus Sexual Assault
…that “90%” of rapes on campus are perpetrated by a few men. For starters, Lisak didn’t conduct the study himself but used data from studies conducted by his former grad…
Diversity Studies: Your Path to a 6-Figure Salary
…everywhere, every corner of the campus must now have its very own diversity specialist, so prospects for yet more positions are excellent. Surely, a genuine commitment requires diversity monitors plying…
How #MeToo Became Weaponized at NYU
…to dictate personal life. Thus far, the situation on college campuses has only gotten worse, not better, as the advent of campus Bias Report Teams and multiplication of avenues for…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
…components of leftist suppression of ideas and speech on campus. Nor if we look beyond campus to the assaults on public officials, the doxing of individuals who get crosswise with…
Professor John McAdams ‘1’. . . Marquette University ‘0’
…campus, there was little faculty support. It is likely that McAdams had made himself unpopular among the progressive faculty members on campus because of his willingness to expose what he…
Are Alumni Pulling the Policy Strings in Academia?
…Duke campus disclose their criminal-legal histories. It is not a coincidence that the student protestors chose to disrupt a Duke alumni event. Alumni are the largest private source of financial…
The Fallout From Weaponizing Title IX
…role in ensuring campus justice. As long as this spirit of defiance remains in place, courts must be vigilant in ensuring what accused students have rarely found on campuses—fair treatment….
Those Darling Duke Student Protesters
…Student Conduct sent letters to about 20 students announcing that an inquiry of their conduct was underway. In an interview with the Duke Chronicle a few days later, three organizers…
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The Media Slams Yale Student Verdict on Rape
…piece explored the differences between the definitions of consent in campus tribunals and in a court of law. (Wang did not mention that in a campus tribunal, Khan would have…
What Professors Ought to Tell Students
…in their fields of study. Holmes’s Famous Dissent But professors should emphasize our ignorance about important questions for another reason. The students who join elite campuses (where I have mainly…
A New Campus Ailment–White Civility
…unsuspected ailment—civility. As explained in a Journal op-ed by journalism professor Steve Salerno, “whiteness informed civility” gives whites the impression that they can conduct conversations with black people without confessing…
How Identity Politics Boosts College Conservatives
…together,” he said in the Chronicle. “Identity liberalism does just the opposite.” Lilla turns to the campus as the place where identity politics have distorted real politics into a self-oriented…
‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We’ve Won’
…“misconduct” – itself a fiendishly vague term– such that simply a “preponderance of evidence” (i.e., more than 50 %) should be considered sufficient to sustain an allegation, sexual harassment charges…
Free Speech–Where Are the Adults in the Room?
…campuses. Diversity-talk on college today’s campuses is obsessed with gender, race, sexual orientation, and other constructions of identity. In excess, these obsessions degrade intellectual discourse, interpersonal civility, and campus life…
The Roots of Our New Civil War: Tocqueville vs. Gramsci
…campuses. For example, the Ford Foundation launched a Campus Diversity Initiative in 1990 that funded programs in about 250 colleges and universities at the cost of approximately $15 million. The…
Double Jeopardy for the Accused at Duke
Some colleges seem so eager to find males culpable of sexual offenses that they insert a provision in campus student-discipline rules allowing a form of double jeopardy. Ron Gronberg reported…
Trying for Fairer Treatment of Accused Students in Georgia
…increased oversight of investigations by the system office and provides a consistent approach for handling all conduct and sexual-misconduct matters through the same procedures. Campus officials will steer away from…
How Colleges Promote Censorship and Undermine Free Speech
…feel unsafe, and threaten violence—in response to which administrators and even campus police rapidly capitulate. And in the downward spiral that has been played out on numerous campuses over many…
Middlebury Student Government Says No to Free Speech
…are invited by a student organization, conduct themselves in a lawful manner, and do not physically harass—to speak on campus without the threat of disruption, and to enforce the policies…
Professor Laura Kipnis–She Faced Title IX Charges for Writing an Essay
…misconduct toward an undergraduate and later also a graduate student. (See Minding the Campus coverage of the case.) Now, Kipnis tackles the same subject in a book that takes an…