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Compassionate But Impartial
Paperwork aside, Title IX coordinators say their jobs take an unusual emotional toll and encourage peers to exercise self-care.
One of Their Own
Athletics directors are thrilled to see one of their own take a leadership role within the NCAA staff, but it's unclear what sway the new position will have and which concerns will take precedence.
Suspended for Blogging
The Marquette U. professor who criticized a TA's teaching on his personal blog is suspended, pending a university investigation into his conduct.
Doing the Coach a Favor
A professor is caught in the middle of an athletics scandal after he is encouraged by a swimming coach to admit a student into an independent study course as a last-ditch effort to maintain eligibility.
Protecting Whom?
The U.S. Department of Education says universities should honor student privacy laws, even when they would block the reporting of how they discipline students accused of sexual assault.
A (Football) Tale of 2 Universities
Alabama-Birmingham's decision to drop football should inspire other universities that bleed red ink and sacrifice their integrity to play the sport, write Richard Vedder and Joseph Hartge.
One in Five?
It's been used to galvanize a growing movement against campus sexual assault, but critics say an often-cited statistic about the prevalence of campus sexual assault is not very reliable.
When the Victim is Male
Education Department finds that SMU violated the law with a poor response to a sexual assault case in which the assailant and victim were both male, and the former came from a prominent alumni family.