Faculty

Author discusses new book about the importance of vision and values in higher education.

They are easy to caricature, but examining safe spaces within the broader context of the university and the First Amendment shows that, properly constructed, they can help students pursue knowledge, write Ashutosh Bhagwat and John Inazu.

By Ashutosh Bhagwat and John Inazu

Grad students’ lawsuit against Ohio U says it failed to act on complaints of an English professor’s sexual misconduct for a decade, allowing him to continue harassing young women. A former department chair is named as a co-defendant.

Advocates for science hope Congress will block proposals.

A physician and a scientist, Raynard S. Kington, adds his voice to those who are appalled by the proposed elimination of the National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities.

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The Trump administration's new budget blueprint proposes the effective elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities, write Francine Berman and Cathy N. Davidson. Is that the value we place on our cultural inheritance and its future?

By Francine Berman and Cathy N. Davidson

In wake of scandals, U of California strengthens faculty policies against sexual harassment and assault.

When the alleged perpetrator is a person with whom we feel some sort of affiliation or reverence, we start to make excuses and bend over backward to deny the plausibility of the victim’s experience, writes Jamie L. Small.

By Jamie L. Small