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Gender Identity Norms Shift, and Institutions Move to Reflect Them
Institutions are tweaking campus information systems to make them better reflect students’ gender identities but are finding the technology to do so challenging.
‘If I’m Hungry, the Last Thing I’m Worried About Is Physics II’
A new survey of nearly 5,000 students at historically Black colleges and universities found that they faced food shortages and unstable housing and experienced homelessness during 2019–20.
Isolating With COVID … and a Roommate
Facing a projected squeeze on isolation housing, some colleges modify their polices to allow COVID-positive students to isolate in their dorms—even if they have roommates—or to go home.
NCAA Adopts New Constitution, Policies for Trans Athletes
The NCAA ratified a new constitution Thursday despite objections from members who feel it concentrates too much money and power in the hands of Division I colleges.
Michigan Reaches $490M Settlement in Sexual Abuse Case
The University of Michigan has reached a settlement agreement with attorneys for more than 1,050 claimants alleging sexual abuse by now-deceased university doctor Robert Anderson.
Opinion
The Big Threat to Academic Freedom No One’s Talking About
College athletes lack the rights other students enjoy because those rights have been subsumed by business imperatives, write Stephen T. Casper, Jay M. Smith and Nathan Kalman-Lamb.
A Decades-Long ‘National Crisis,’ and A New Position
Compton College created a new position focused on the academic needs of Black and Latino men. Campus leaders believe they’re at the forefront of a new and long overdue trend.
Not a Criminal, but Not Professor Material?
A Penn State professor says he was protecting pro–vaccine mandate demonstrators when he struggled with a counterprotester. The professor was vindicated in court, but Penn State wants to fire him anyway.