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Don’t Knock #SafeSpace
Images like this one have been circulating on Twitter, mocking Safe Space. It is in response to the thousands of student across the country who are trying to create room for themselves on college...
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Taking Responsibility
“How to fire federal employees” was the informal name of a workshop I attended a few weeks ago. The workshop wasn’t about getting rid of great or mediocre employees; it was about dealing with toxic,...
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Phyllis Schlafley and I Go Way Back
Phyllis Schlafley and I go way back. She plagued me in the late 1970s when I was a college student. I had been sexually assaulted in the first semester of my freshman year, and was struggling with...
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The Most Hated Man in America
By now, you’ve probably had some exposure to the one the media calls, “the most hated man in America.” No, they aren’t referring to a presidential candidate. They’re referring to Martin Shkreli, the...
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Who Needs Hypotheticals When Real Life is So Obliging?
Who needs to create case studies for class when real life is so accommodating? A great scenario for any of our leadership courses has emerged over the last few weeks: Mount St Mary’s University in...
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Self-Restraint on Social Media
The past couple of weeks have had at least a couple of events within the field of higher education that have drawn my attention. Xi Jinping, the President of China, continues to cajole, if not...
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Taking a Risk at the AERA Meeting
The Annual Education Research Association meeting is happening this week. I’m presenting a paper on my shoes. Yes, that’s right, my shoes. And gender. And race. And how those things affect how I might...
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The Centrality of Due Process in Sexual Assault Adjudication
The news last month hit very close to home. USC lost on appeal its suspension of a student accused of sexual assault. There are two reasons a decision could be overturned—procedural errors or a...
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AERA Follow-up: Shoe Tales
It’s commencement season, so I could totally just write about that, but I promised that I would follow up on what happened at my AERA presentation last month. Here is what happened…..not much. I made...
View ArticleThe Problem of the Whiteness of Sexual Assault Research
I hosted a roundtable at AERA recently (thank you, Kristan Venegas!) to discuss the state of research about sexual assault on college campuses. Two important things happened. First, the table was full....
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