Diversity

Many more colleges have dedicated Title IX offices, writes Sara Matthiesen, but activists should also take a hard look at an overlooked but exceedingly powerful entity.

Supporting and counseling students who’ve experienced sexual violence can be fraught with challenges for contingent faculty, writes Alexis Henshaw.

We must confront the subject of sexual violence head-on and educate male student-athletes about the various forms of it, writes DeWitt Scott.

Aspects of the university structure make it too easy for those in powerful positions to abuse their status and engage in harassment and assault against less powerful groups, argues Adia Harvey Wingfield.

Why do people in academe tend to downplay what we have achieved, asks J. E. Sumerau, for the sake of some future possibility?

A rape survivor finds the same campus colleagues who publicly opposed sexual assault were those who did not treat her with empathy and respect.

Academic departments normalize sexual violence when they look the other way as faculty members abuse their power in harassing or assaulting junior faculty and/or students, argues Donovan A. Steinberg.

Jen Dylan provides advice to graduate students for dealing with sexual harassment.