In January, the University of California reversed itself and agreed to accept for transfer credit a course taught by Professor David Clemens at Monterey Peninsula College, “Literature By and About Men.”
In December 2004, Clemens complained that the University of California had rejected his literature course for transfer credit because, the university claimed, the course […]
Almost as quickly as the multiple accusations of rape by University of Colorado athletes emerged, the set of charges appeared to crash and burn due to lack of evidence and, in some cases, positive evidence of innocence.
Following the school’s recruiting scandal, a woman came forward an accused two University of Colorado football players of […]
What a difference a couple of years and a war makes. Under the Taliban, women in Afghanistan could not work outside the home and the Internet was banned because of all the immoral content it carried. Now, women in Afghanistan are training in computer networking to help kick start Afghanistan’s information technology industry.
Reuters ran […]
Wendy McElroy makes an interesting observation that I had not heard before about the controversy surrounding Columbia’s sexual harassment policy. If Columbia were a public university or college its policy would be clearly unconstitutional and the courts would take little time at all overturning it. Columbia is a private university, however, and so doesn’t […]
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports that Columbia University is apparently refusing to publicly defend its controversial sexual misconduct policy. The new policy completely strips persons accused of sexual misconduct of any meaningful rights and has garnered a lot of unfavorable publicity for the university.
On February 23, the Columbia University chapter of […]
When Heather Mercer won a $2 million judgment from Duke University, it was hailed as an important victory for women’s athletics. Instead it will likely shut the door for women who want to follow in Mercer’s footsteps.
Mercer wanted to be a kicker for Duke’s football team. She was given a tryout by the coach, […]
Judith Kleinfeld recently wrote a column for The Christian Science Monitor summarizing her views and the recent Independent Women’s Forum study of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sexual discrimination study.
MIT’s study claimed that the university had discriminated against female scientists, but on closer analysis the study was a political document devoid of any statistics […]
Feminist theologian Mary Daly recently reached a settlement with Boston College over her strange exit from teaching. For 25 years Daly had refused to allow men in her classroom, and to their discredit Boston College officials grudgingly accepted this arrangement.
But in 1999 a student threatened to sue Boston College if Daly refused to allow […]
A little less than a year ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a report, A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT, that claimed there was institutionalized discrimination against women at MIT. The university followed up that report by increasing the salaries of female professors and took other actions […]
In recent months there have been a number of news stories about a gender discrepancy at American universities and colleges that is likely to grow even larger in coming years — women now are disproportionately represented in higher education.
This year, for example, men made up only 44 percent of admissions to colleges and universities. […]