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Wrongly Accused?
A year after a university was accused of being tragically slow in responding to harassment concerns about a professor, it is now accused overreacting to questionable concerns about another professor.
Strategy for Women in STEM
One college unexpectedly found that female engineering students responded particularly well to its project-based learning approach. Experts say the curriculum could help attract and retain women in the STEM fields.
A Room of One's Own
Debate at U. of Chicago raises question: Are graduate students who are breastfeeding mothers entitled to a private place to pump?
Gay Rights and Religious Colleges
At Baylor, student government wants to ban "deviate" sex instead of "homosexual acts," and says this would make gay students more welcome. At Creighton, Catholic student group wants to end ticket give-aways for concert by singers who created "Same Love."
Ignoring the Pope?
New pontiff has suggested that church leaders focus less on abortion and homosexuality. So recent actions at Roman Catholic colleges have faculty members wondering if administrators missed the latest from Rome.
'Blueprint' Balancing Act
Montana didn't ask to be the national model for sexual assault response, but after a series of alleged rapes, the U.S. government made it so. Staff members and students adjust to expansive policies and a spotlight that isn't dimming.
When Does a Scientist Get Called a Whore?
Many professors are outraged over an e-mail sent to an academic blogger and over the way Scientific American removed her post describing what happened.
Engineering Bigotry?
Some faculty members are outraged that science education magazine published letter of anti-gay rhetoric.