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FACULTY MENTAL HEALTH

A Professor ‘Resigned’ During a Mental-Health Crisis. Now She Wants Her Job Back.

By Katherine Mangan

The case is drawing national attention to the struggles faculty members with mental-health disabilities face when their illness interferes with their work — and the challenges universities face in responding.

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LEGAL

Oberlin’s Aid to Student Protesters Led to a $32-Million Judgment. The College Appealed, and Lost.

By Oyin Adedoyin

A state appeals court found that evidence backed the claim that the college’s support for speech accusing a bakery of racism constituted defamation.

BACKGROUNDER

The Rift

By Vimal Patel

A jury’s landmark verdict against Oberlin raises a question: Can the college regain the trust of its community?

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THE REVIEW | ESSAY

‘Who’s Black and Why?’

By John Samuel Harpham

A new book by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran examines how 18th-century academics understood Black identity.

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