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Margaret Atwood, #MeToo, Due Process and a Professor
Column by author who is a feminist icon asks if she is a “bad feminist” -- and revives debate over whether a university inappropriately fired a noted novelist.
Profanity, Not Pedagogy
Court rejects terminated professor's First Amendment suit against LSU, saying there's no meaningful connection between her vulgar language and training teachers.
Opinion
Portrait of a Budget Cut
Adjunct Sara Tatyana Bernstein describes the panic and pain of it all.
No Closure at Rochester
President resigns; report says accused professor was unprofessional and inappropriate but didn't break the law or university rules; many students and faculty members remain angry. Accused professor responds.
Opinion
Getting Even
Scott McLemee reviews Revenge: A Short Enquiry into Retribution, a compendium of one of the human imagination's most reliable, and cross-cultural, narrative templates.
A Political Scientist Says #MeToo
A professor shares her experience of harassment and sees support as well as backlash, enabled in part by a controversial anonymous online forum for political scientists.
‘Keywords’ for Understanding Academe
Co-editors discuss their no-holds-barred dictionary for academic life.
Opinion
The Lessons of Engineering Improv
As an engineering professor, Joseph Holtgreive is using an art form designed to focus on the needs of others to help his students turn obstacles into opportunities.