She wrote an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, complaining about new campus codes prohibiting student-teacher liaisons... and wound up the target of a student march and complaints that her article "terrified" at least one of them.
http://chronicle.com/article/My-Title-IX-Inquisition/230489/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
So where are we in higher education on this Friday in late May? As reported in this blog:
1. The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education is so overwhelmed with sexual-assault cases that a single case is taking four years from initiation to resolution on average.
2. Litigation by both alleged "victims" and the accused is climbing exponentially, as schools struggle to serve as proxy criminal-justice systems.
3. Rolling Stone Magazine is wrestling with law suits of its own, growing out of the journalistic travesty the publication perpetrated vis a vis the University of Virginia and Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. From now on we all must read that magazine with a jaundiced eye... it we continue reading it at all.
4. Meanwhile, as the New Campus Puritanism distracts us all, the financial crisis that has been coming since 2008 is gaining momentum. The for-profits are on the ropes, due to DOE regulatory actions, private lawsuits, and declining enrollments. Non-profit privates are discounting at historically deep levels, beyond 50%. And some schools in both sectors have gone so far as to give up and shut down.
Anyway, that's how this commentator sees the scene on this gorgeous (here in the Northeast, anyway) spring morning.
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