Campus Safety

2019

• Title Ix Emerges as Top Obstacle to Higher Ed Law Deal (IHE 8/6/19)
• Ex-MSU President, Charged With Lying To Police About Nassar, Retires With $2.45 Million (Huff Po 7/31/19)
• ‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map (CHE 7/3/19)
• UF Implements a $30 Million Safety Plan (FL Alligator 6/22/19)
• UCF Scanning License Plates of Cars on Campus to Check Against Police Databases (Orlando Sentinel 6/20/19)
• Stop Surveilling Students (IHE 6/9/19)
• Johns Hopkins Students Escalate Sit-in Over Proposed Campus Police Force (IHE 5/8/19)
• Johns Hopkins’ Latest Plan for Police Force Prompts Protest From Students, Faculty, Neighbors (Popular Resistance 2/14/19)
• The 2019 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers (IHE 1/23/19)
• Chapel Hill Chancellor's Departure Comes as Tensions at UNC Continue Boiling Over (IHE 1/15/19)
• AEA Grad Students' Letter (UCLAFA 1/2/19)

2018

• Hate Crimes on Campuses Are Rising, New FBI Data Show (CHE 11/14/18)
• Right-Wing Groups Are Recruiting Students to Target Teachers (Reveal 10/30/18)
• UVA Bans 10 White Nationalists In Light Of Charlottesville Violence (Talking Points Memo 10/26/18)
• Annual Report Documents Attacks on Students and Scholars Worldwide (IHE 10/23/18)
• Administrators, Students and Activists Take Stock Three Years After 2015 Missouri Protests (IHE 9/12/18)
• An N.Y.U. Sexual-Harassment Case Has Spurred a Necessary Conversation About #MeToo (The New Yorker 8/25/18)
• Attorney General Again Denounces Campuses on Free Expression, but What About Kansas? (IHE 7/25/18)
• CA Auditor: "The University of California: Report 2017-125—It Must Take Additional Steps to Address Long-Standing Issues With Its Response to Sexual Harassment Complaints" (Cloudminder 6/21/18)
• How to Fix USC's Culture of Impunity (LAT 5/26/18)
• USC President C.L. Max Nikias to Step Down (LAT 5/25/18)
• USC President Max Nikias Should Resign (LAT 5/23/18)
• Violence Against Educational Institutions, Students and Staff Rising (IHE 5/11/18)
• Pension Theft (UCLAFA 5/2/18)
• Those Bloody Clashes at UC Berkeley Put Democrats and Republicans in the Capitol at Odds over Free Speech (LAT 4/13/18)
• UC as revolving door on Title IX issues at Mich State U? More. (Cloudminder 4/9/18)
• UF Pays County $67K for Richard Spencer Event (Gainesville Sun 3/28/18)
• Security Costs Loom Larger in Campus Free-Speech Fights. A Lawsuit Shows Why. (CHE 2/7/18)
• Report Documents Surge in Campus Propaganda by White Supremacists (IHE 2/1/18)
• Students With Disabilities Are Largely Ignored by Colleges’ Assault Prevention, Study Finds (CHE 1/31/18)
• How Texas Colleges Have Responded to the Hate Groups Behind All Those Racist Flyers (Texas Observer 1/29/18)
• Facing the Reality of the Trump Regime (AAUP 1/17/18)
• Colleges Brace for Tumult in 2018 as White Supremacists Demand a Stage (NYT 1/17/18)
• Hate Groups Make Unprecedented Push to Recruit on College Campuses (Wa Po 1/12/18)

2017

• Universities Fear a Violent 2018 (Politico 12/26/17)
• White Supremacists Pose at Southern Methodist's Campus (IHE 12/5/17)
• Chastise, admonish, apologize, resign, bid, ashamed...the UC Regents... (Cloudminder 11/16/17)
• In the Name of Victims (Boston Rev 11/1/17)
• The Problem with ìTaking Offenseî (Academe Blog 10/29/17)
• Candice Jackson on Campus Sex Assault: ‘We’re Not Asking Schools to Step In as Courts of Law’ (CHE 10/26/17)
• Only 1 Percent of Students Would Consider Disrupting Speakers Violently, Survey Finds (CHE 10/11/17)
• After White Supremacists Marched Through Campus, UVA Grapples With Change (Huff Po 9/26/17)
• Education Department Releases Interim Directions for Title IX Compliance (IHE 9/25/17)
• What Stunts Like Milo Yiannopoulos’s ‘Free Speech Week’ Cost (NYT 9/24/17)
• UC Berkeley Faculty Members Call for Campus Boycott During “Free Speech Week” (Academe Blog 9/13/17)
• Two Takes on DeVos’s Speech on Title IX (Academe Blog 9/11/17)
• U of Florida Rejects Request for White Supremacist to Speak (IHE 8/16/17)
• The ‘Free Speech’ Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Media (NYT 8/14/17)
• White Nationalist Rally at Texas A&M University Has Been Canceled (Texas Tribune 8/14/17)
• White Supremacy is Turning up on Campus in Speeches and Leaflets (IHE 8/14/17)
• “On Many Sides?” Not in Academia! (Academe Blog 8/13/17)
• Another Side Of The Evergreen State College Story (Huff Po 8/11/17)
• Study Finds Large Share of Cases Involving Faculty Harassment of Graduate Students Are Serious (IHE 7/18/17)
• Crashing the Academic Conversation (CHE 7/9/17)
• Why Institutions Should Shield Academics Who Are Being Attacked by Conservative Groups (IHE 6/26/17)
• Update on Trinity College Harassment Case (Academe Blog 6/23/17)
• Campus Closes After Professor Receives Threats (Academe Blog 6/21/17)
• A Campus Argument Goes Viral. Now the College Is Under Siege. (NYT 6/16/17)
• On Campus Racism and the Murder of Richard Collins III (Daniel Greene 5/22/17)
• AAUP Rebukes College for Firing Professor Who Called Armed Student a Threat (CHE 5/16/17)
• The Determining Factor (Cloudminder 4/20/17)
• Stanford Barred Professor from Using Trump's Image for Sexual Assault Conference (Guardian 4/14/17)
• University of California: 124 Sexual Misconduct Cases Detailed (Mercury News 2/28/17)
• Texas Bill Could Force Campus Police to Play Role in Immigration Matters (IHE 2/17/17)
• Stanford Drops Lawyer Who Advised Students in Sexual Assault Cases (NYT 2/9/17)
• DeVos Confirmation Squeaks Through Senate (IHE 2/8/17)
• Being Harassed in the Wake of Milo (Academe Blog 2/6/17)
• College Leaders Discuss Suture of Title IX, Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts (IHE 1/26/17)
• When Campus Rapists Are Repeat Offenders (NYT 1/24/17)
• Shooting at U of Washington as Tensions Grow Over Milo Yiannopoulos Speeches (IHE 1/23/17)
• Bullseye on my Back: On Being Targeted by the Right-Wing Media (Academe Blog 1/13/17)

2016

• Here’s a Rundown of the Latest Campus-Climate Incidents Since Trump’s Election (CHE 12/13/16)
• #SanctuaryCampus! (Academe Blog 12/13/16)
• OCC Professor Received Threats, Left the State After Video of Her Anti-Trump Comments (OC Register 12/12/16)
• Report Outlines Duties of Countries to Protect Higher Education from Attacks (IHE 12/8/16)
• Campus Press vs. Colleges: Kentucky Suit Highlights Free-Speech Fight (NYT 12/2/16)
• AAUP Joins Call to Speak Out Against Hate (Academe Blog 11/28/16)
• Two Jewish Professors on Different Campuses are Harassed with Anti-Semitic Threats (IHE 11/28/16)
• AAUP Condemns Hate Crimes, Endorses Campus Sanctuary Movement (IHE 11/23/16)
• The Atmosphere on Campus in the Wake of the Elections (AAUP 11/22/16)
• At Meeting of State University Leaders, Varying Opinions on Free Speech in Contentious Times (IHE 11/14/16)
• The Debate Over “Safe Spaces” Has Taken on New Significance (Academe Blog 11/13/16)
• Free (Or Fettered) to Teach at the Community College? (Academe Blog 11/12/16)
• Walls or Bridges (Cloudminder 11/10/16)
• Trump and GOP Likely to Try to Scale Back Title IX Enforcement on Sexual Assault (IHE 11/10/16)
• Even at Berkeley, I Face Threats as an Undocumented Student (NYT 11/7/16)
• Harvard Men’s Soccer Team Is Sidelined for Vulgar ‘Scouting Report’ (NYT 11/4/16)
• "We take the allegations of sexual harassment against Regent Norman Pattiz very seriously..." (Cloudminder 11/3/16)
• Ugly Blacklist Posters Spur Resistance (Academe Blog 11/2/16)
• UC Regent Pattiz -and Women's Breasts, Apologies, and Appointments (Cloudminder 11/2/16)
• Report from Scholars at Risk Tracks Global Attacks on Students and Scholars (IHE 10/31/16)
• Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, Too (NYT 9/10/16)
• Citing Safety Concerns, Northwestern U. Bans Tenured 'Gadfly' Professor From Campus (CHE 9/3/16)
• Federal Judge Rejects Academic Freedom Challenge to Campus Carry Law (IHE 8/23/16)
• More Davis Problems (UCLAFA 8/7/16)
• Group Seeks to Block U of Texas from Letting Professors Keep Guns out of Offices (IHE 8/5/16)
• Federal Appeals Court Revives Title IX Suit by Male Student Challenging Sex Assault Finding (IHE 8/1/16)
• Enough is Enough: Petition to Suspend Contract Renewal of Football Coach, Damon Harrington (UCBFA 6/30/16)
• Colleges Sued by Students for Negligence Turn To 'Victim Blaming' in Defense (IHE 6/17/16)
• There Are Far More Title IX Investigations Of Colleges Than Most People Know (Huff Po 6/16/16)
• Title IX (CHE 6/4/16)
• Baylor University Prepares to Fire President Over Handling of Assaults (IHE 5/25/16)
• Baylor University Prepares to Fire President Over Handling of Assaults (IHE 5/25/16)
• 'You're a Sinner': How a Mormon University Shames Rape Victims (Guardian 4/30/16)
• UC Davis's Expensive Campaign to Scrub a Pepper-Spraying Incident From the Web (The Atlantic 4/15/16)
• UC Davis Spent Thousands to Scrub Pepper-Spray References from Internet (Sac Bee 4/13/16)
• I Hope This Was Useless (IHE 4/12/16)
• Professor's Lawsuit Alleges Harassment, Retaliation by Former Wesleyan U Dean (IHE 4/8/16)
• Tenure Rights and the Rise of Title IX: a Looming Culture Clash (CHE 4/7/16)
• UC Berkeley Chancellor Unveils New Plan to Fight Sexual Misconduct on Campus (LAT 3/24/16)
• AAUP Critiques Education Department Crackdown on Sexual Assault and Harassment (IHE 3/24/16)
• UC Berkeley's Provost Faces Call to Resign Over his Handling of Sexual Harassment at the Law School (LAT 3/22/16)
• Critics Assail Potential New York Move on Regulating Online Colleges (NYT 3/16/16)
• UC Berkeley Investigates 26 More Cases of Sexual Misconduct Amid Scandal (Guardian 3/15/16)
• U. of California President Orders Tougher Response to Alleged Sexual Misconduct (CHE 3/13/16)
• UC Chancellors Destroying The Arguments For UC Funding From Sacramento?! (Cloudminder 3/13/16)
• At Calif. Campuses, A Test For Free Speech, Privacy And Cybersecurity (NPR 3/11/16)
• Choudhry Resigns as Dean- Remains Professor - Amid Harassment Scandal (Cloudminder 3/10/16)
• U of Houston Faculty Senate Suggests Changes to Teaching Under Campus Carry (IHE 2/24/16)
• Coaches Say UT's Culture Is Fine, Despite Multiple Rape And Assault Allegations (Huff Po 2/23/16)
• “Campus Carry” and Academic Freedom (Academe Blog 2/23/16)
• Jury: No Hate Crime Convictions in San Jose State Bullying Trial (Mercury News 2/22/16)
• Education Dept. Defends Its Approach to Title IX in Face of Senate Pressure (CHE 2/19/16)
• Why Did UC Fire a Tenured Professor? (IHE 2/3/16)
• At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest (NYT 2/1/16)
• Statement on Rob Latham by His Former Department (Academe Blog 1/28/16)
• On the Firing of a Tenured Professor (Academe Blog 1/26/16)
• Attack on Pakistan's Bacha Khan University Kills 20 (IHE 1/21/16)

2015

• IX at the End of 2015...'Poses Larger Higher Ed Questions' (Cloudminder 12/29/15)
• Regardless of your position, if any, something to watch on CNN (Cloudminder 11/22/15)
• 3 More Sororities Back Away From Safe Campus Act (Huff Po 11/13/15)
• More Students Punished Over Sexual Assault are Winning Lawsuits Against Colleges (IHE 11/5/15)
• Four Stabbed at UC Merced; Suspect Shot and Killed by Police (Merced Sun Star 11/4/15)
• Therapist Who Criticized Oregon Over Records Resigns (IHE 11/3/15)
• U of California to Examine Deadlines for Disciplining Professors in Harassment Cases (IHE 10/19/15)
• A University Debates How to Carry Out a Divisive Guns-on-Campus Law (CHE 10/15/15)
• "Women in Our Field" , "My Women Colleagues" Apology (Cloudminder 10/10/15)
• California Court Says College Students Cannot Expect Protection From Classroom Crimes (CHE 10/8/15)
• How a Little-Known Education Office Has Forced Far-Reaching Changes to Campus Sex Assault Investigations (LAT 8/17/15)
• Bill Would Strengthen Due Process Rights of Students, Fraternities Accused of Sexual Misconduct (IHE 7/30/15)
• Student Sexual Violence: 'leaving each university to deal with it isn't working' (Guardian 7/26/15)
• College Law Enforcement Administrators Hear Approach to Make Title IX More Effective (IHE 7/6/15)
• New Survey Finds 1 in 5 College Women Have Experienced Sexual Assault (IHE 6/15/15)
• This Is the New Frontier in the Fight Against Campus Rape (Time 6/5/15)
• Fraternities’ Ranks Swell at a Time of Intense Public Scrutiny (CHE 5/28/15)
• Penn State Hack Exposes Theft Risk of Student Personal Data (The Conversation 5/20/15)
• Chancellor Yang, UCSB Meet Demands of Sexual Assault Survivors After 13-Hour Sit-In (The Bottom Line 5/15/15)
• Students Accused of Sexual Assault Struggle to Win Gender Bias Lawsuits (IHE 5/1/15)
• Should Students Sit on Sexual Assault Panels? (NYT 4/10/15)
• Shabab Gunmen Are Said to Mount Deadly Attack on University in Kenya (NYT 4/2/15)
• UCLA Blasts Military-style Siren to Break up Crowds (KPCC 3/31/15)
• Fraternities Consider Lobbying Congress To Thwart College Rape Investigations (Huff Po 3/25/15)
• U. of Maryland Wrestles with How to Punish Fraternity Member who sent Racist, Sexist E-mail (IHE 3/16/15)
• Several Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapters Accused of Racism in Recent Years (IHE 3/10/15)
• After 6 Suicides, U. of Pennsylvania Takes a Tough Look at Its Campus Culture (CHE 3/3/15)
• Walker’s AG and Undergrads Hate His Sex Assault Cut: The 2016 Hopeful Just Made a Bunch of Enemies (Daily Beast 2/27/15)
• Yale Professors Object to 'Vague' New Faculty Conduct Policy (IHE 2/24/15)
• Colleges Call in Legal Pros to Handle Sexual-Assault Cases (CHE 2/16/15)
• Penn State Task Force Calls For Disclosure Of Sexual Assault Punishments (Huff Po 1/29/15)
• 2015 Survey of Chief Academic Officers (IHE 1/22/15)
• More Than a Dozen Research Universities Opt Out of Higher Education Group's Sexual Assault Survey (IHE 1/13/15)

2014

• Are MOOC-Takers 'Students'? Not When It Comes to the Feds Protecting Their Data (CHE 12/3/14)
• U. of Virginia Board Adopts Policy to Show it is Getting Tough on Sexual Assault, But the Policy Lacks Specifics (IHE 11/26/14)
• Does the University of Virginia Have a Culture of Silence Around Sexual Assault? (NYT 11/21/14)
• Q&A: Why Protesters Are Standing Their Ground at Syracuse U (CHE 11/10/14)
• Princeton’s Sex-Assault Policies Violate Federal Law, Education Dept. Says (CHE 11/5/14)
• Handling of Sexual Harassment Case Poses Larger Questions at Yale (NYT 11/1/14)
• Rare Survey Examines Sexual Assault at M.I.T. (NYT 10/27/14)
• UC Policies Raise Legal Questions About Rights of Students with Mental Health Issues (Daily Bruin 10/20/14)
• Colleges Across Country Adopting Affirmative Consent Sexual Assault Policies (IHE 10/17/14)
• For Safety's Sake, Get Rid of Campus Cops (CHE 10/8/14)
• Virginia Cases Show Vulnerability of Women on Campus (NYT 10/3/14)
• SUNY Adopts Sexual Assault Policies for All Campuses (IHE 10/3/14)
• Scrutiny for Delaware State professor's statements on Ebola (IHE 9/29/14)
• Adjuncts, Retirements and Sexual Harassment: A Survey of Campus HR Leaders (IHE 9/29/14)
• Fewer Than One-Third Of Campus Sexual Assault Cases Result In Expulsion (Huff Po 9/29/14)
• De Blasio Plans Revised Code for Discipline in Schools (NYT 9/28/14)
• Science’s Sexual Assault Problem (NYT 9/18/14)
• UC Task Force Unveils Guidelines on Fighting Campus Sexual Misconduct (LAT 9/17/14)
• L.A. Schools Police Will Return Grenade Launchers but Keep Rifles, Armored Vehicle (LAT 9/16/14)
• In Florida Student Assaults, an Added Burden on Accusers (NYT 9/14/14)
• Police Armored Vehicle Is Unwelcome in California College Town (NYT 9/13/14)
• The Equipment 117 Colleges Have Acquired From the Dept. of Defense (CHE 9/11/14)
• On Campus, Grenade Launchers, M-16s, and Armored Vehicles (CHE 9/11/14)
• Chapel Hill Revises Policies on Sex Assault Charges (IHE 8/29/14)
• Assembly Passes Victim-Centered Sexual Assault Policy (Calitics 8/26/14)
• UCLA Under Investigation for Handling of Sex Misconduct Cases (LAT 8/13/14)
• Campus Sexual Assault Bill Unveiled with Bipartisan Backing in Senate (Guardian 7/30/14)
• UCSB Professor Pleads No Contest in Theft, Battery Case (SB Independent 7/24/14)
• University of Connecticut Settles Sex Assault Case with Five Women (Guardian 7/18/14)
• How One College Handled a Sexual Assault Complaint (NYT 7/12/14)
• Parents of Elliot Rodger’s 3 Stabbing Victims Express Frustration Amid a Search for Answers (WaPo 6/23/14)
• UCSB Friends Were Victims of Circumstance (LAT 6/20/14)
• Efforts by Colleges to Curb Assaults Focus on Fraternities (NYT 6/12/14)
• If It's A School Week In America, Odds Are There Will Be A School Shooting (Huff Po 6/10/14)
• California Lawmakers Would Require Students to get a 'Yes' Before Sex (IHE 6/9/14)
• More College Men are Fighting Back Against Sexual Misconduct Cases (LAT 6/7/14)
• Shooter Kills One, Injures Others at Seattle Pacific U. (IHE 6/6/14)
• Why the Campus Rape Crisis Confounds Colleges (The Nation 6/5/14)
• Poll Finds Most College Leaders Oppose Concealed Carry on Campus (IHE 6/4/14)
• Elliot O. Rodger’s Killings in California Followed Years of Withdrawal (NYT 6/1/14)
• Loved (Cloudminder 5/29/14)
• UC Santa Barbara Tragedy Receives Support Across UC System (Daily Cal 5/28/14)
• Remembering David, George, James (Cloudminder 5/26/14)
• UC Berkeley Students Press for Responses to Sexual Assault (KQED 5/5/14)
• Campus Rape and the Rise of the Academic Industrial Complex (Truthout 3/3/14)
• Critique of Student Violence (UCMEP 2/28/10)
• UC-Berkeley Faces New Complaints That It Failed Sexual Assault Survivors (HuffPo 2/26/14)
• Classrooms, Courts or Neither? (IHE 2/12/14)
• Colleges Are Reminded of Federal Eye on Handling of Sexual-Assault Cases (CHE 2/11/14)
• University to Finalize New Sexual Harassment Policy (Daily Cal 2/9/14)
• Clash Over Professor’s Lectures on Sex Tests Academic Freedom at Religious College (CHE 2/7/14)
• Philosophy of Sexism? (IHE 2/3/14)
• Facing Complaints, Columbia’s President Calls for Transparency in Assault Inquiries (NYT 1/29/14)



2013

• Court Rules Florida State College Students Can Keep Guns in Cars (Chicago Tribune 12/11/13)
• College Received More Sex Assault Allegations Than it Reported (LAT 12/6/13)
• Spotlight on Campus Responses to Rape Puts Presidents in a Bind (CHE 11/21/13)
• State to Audit UCLA Sexual Assault Policies (LAT 11/18/12)
• UConn Response To Assault Witness: 'Join A Women's Group' (Huff Po 11/13/13)
• 2 Professors Demand Protection for Sexually Assaulted Students (CHE 11/4/12)
• USC, Occidental Underreported Sexual Assaults (LAT 10/7/13)
• Occidental College Chief Asks for Reconciliation After Accusations (LAT 9/20/13)
• Occidental College Settles in Sexual Assault Cases (LAT 9/18/13)