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Students Praise Male Professors
Study finds gender of instructors influences evaluations they receive, even if they have fooled students (in an online course) about whether they are men or women.
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The Innovation Agenda
Higher education is too important to be left up to administrators, business investors, and their government allies, writes Jeffrey J. Williams.
Defining Harassment
Controversy leads Reed College to ask: Should colleges bar even consensual relationships between supervisors and their subordinates? Are student employees entitled to know about harassment findings in departments in which they work?
Black and Not Feeling Welcome
Back-to-back essays by two Vassar professors, one of them a former dean, renew a debate about treatment of minority faculty members.
Students Protest Over Ferguson
Many voice outrage over lack of an indictment.
New Standards for Diversity Officers
Chief diversity officers are increasingly being appointed to cabinet-level positions. But they haven't had a set of professional standards, drawing criticism from some -- until now.
Too Controversial for Stanford
The musical "Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson," which links popularity of seventh president to his ordering mass killings of Native Americans, is called off after complaints from Native American students.
The N-Word, in Class
Black law students at Mercer seek removal of professor who used slur repeatedly.