Safety

Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson predict the challenges that higher education will face in the coming year.

By Julie A. Peterson and Lisa M. Rudgers

Prison education programs are often aimed at reducing recidivism and helping prisoners find careers once they’re no longer behind bars. So what happens when a prisoner doesn’t have a release date?

Institutions won’t allow students to use marijuana on campuses for fear of running afoul of federal law and losing their funding.

Title IX reforms offer fresh chances for students to reflect on sexual assault, writes Glen Retief, if more exceptions can be made to mandatory-reporting requirements.

By Glen Retief

Kern Holoman, of the University of California, Davis, was stripped of his emeritus professor status this week after allegations of sexual assault from 1987 surfaced. He has denied the claims, which were made by a former student who now works at the university.

Institutions affected by California wildfires juggle logistics of finals, move-out, assignment deadlines.

What can a crowdsourced survey of sexual harassment in academe tell us about the problem?

A lawsuit against Howard University claims that it knew of multiple reports of sexual assault against certain students but did not remove them from campus.