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Margaret Atwood, #MeToo, Due Process and a Professor

Column by author who is a feminist icon asks if she is a “bad feminist” -- and revives debate over whether a university inappropriately fired a noted novelist.

The Myth of Black Students ‘Stealing’ Spots

Rejected white applicants to medical school aren’t losing out because of affirmative action, new analysis contends.

No Closure at Rochester

President resigns; report says accused professor was unprofessional and inappropriate but didn't break the law or university rules; many students and faculty members remain angry. Accused professor responds.

A Political Scientist Says #MeToo

A professor shares her experience of harassment and sees support as well as backlash, enabled in part by a controversial anonymous online forum for political scientists.

'Dancing Backwards in High Heels'

Study finds female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically "entitled" students.
Opinion

The Faculty of the Future

Professors, administrators and policy makers actually share a vision about how faculty roles and employment must change. It’s time to implement it, Adrianna Kezar and two colleagues argue.
Opinion

Attending an Elite College Is an Identity

Some students at highly selective institutions fail to acknowledge their own privilege, and as a result tend to embrace an overly narrow and dogmatic definition of diversity, Eboo Patel writes.

One Strike Is Enough

University of Mississippi’s general counsel has drafted a harassment policy that allows students to be punished for a single incident, atypical among colleges.