Sex & Gender

Janel Curry considers how increased gender balance in the administrative ranks affects all college officials -- and how some "team building" activities should be abandoned, just like male-only leadership teams.

A year after a university was accused of being tragically slow in responding to harassment concerns about a professor, it is now accused overreacting to questionable concerns about another professor.

Debate at U. of Chicago raises question: Are graduate students who are breastfeeding mothers entitled to a private place to pump?

At Baylor, student government wants to ban "deviate" sex instead of "homosexual acts," and says this would make gay students more welcome. At Creighton, Catholic student group wants to end ticket give-aways for concert by singers who created "Same Love."

New pontiff has suggested that church leaders focus less on abortion and homosexuality. So recent actions at Roman Catholic colleges have faculty members wondering if administrators missed the latest from Rome.

Montana didn't ask to be the national model for sexual assault response, but after a series of alleged rapes, the U.S. government made it so. Staff members and students adjust to expansive policies and a spotlight that isn't dimming.

Many professors are outraged over an e-mail sent to an academic blogger and over the way Scientific American removed her post describing what happened.