Once again the federal Education Department is stepping in to do something that all colleges should have done but many haven't -- surveys about sexual violence on campus. Hooray for the feds. Under a provision tucked into a 3,000-page Congressional…
Regulations imposed by former President Donald Trump and his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos worsened an already high level of burnout among Title IX coordinators in schools, districts, and higher education. (By CIPHR Connect / Wikimedia Commons) One of the 2020…
https://youtu.be/_Ivuyj4WyLE There's a double standard in college sports that treats coaches differently depending on whether they discriminated under Title IX or were the ones discriminated against -- men get rehired, and women get rejected for other top coaching jobs. But…
Big names in academia gave shameful public lessons recently on what institutional betrayal looks like. At Harvard University, 38 faculty members signed an open letter challenging the university’s decision to bar anthropologist John Comaroff from teaching or taking on new…
Tuesday, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, also was World Read Aloud Day and the second day of National Library Lovers Month. That's a hodgepodge, I admit. But it's perhaps a fitting way to introduce the first of a…
Note to readers: This post is not about Title IX or my forthcoming book. It's a love letter of sorts to the Djerassi Resident Artists Program for giving me a month of space and time in which other forms of…