The California Supreme Court ruled last week that a woman who had been stabbed by a classmate at UCLA could sue the university for negligence. Benjamin Zipursky, a law professor who has followed the case, says the decision could be a “landmark.”
Manoush Zomorodi and JP Connolly discuss how digital devices can distract students and affect their mental and physical health — and what we can do about it.
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Distress and complications often follow when faculty members focus unwanted sexual attention on their students or junior colleagues. Here’s how college officials deal with such cases and try to resolve complaints.
Speakers with racist, sexist, and anti-immigrant views have prompted campus violence. Here’s how colleges have tried to balance free speech and safety.
Academic careers are often determined by so-called evidence that is flimsy at best, with bias regarding race and gender. Alternative approaches are available.
The legal profession holds the imprecise term in disdain, says Lucy Ferriss, as did her English teachers. Could the future of the presidency depend on it?
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