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Campbell, D'Ann – Notes on Teaching and Learning, 1986
In a recent BEST (Bureau of Evaluative Studies and Testing, Indiana University, Bloomington) survey, 10 percent of Indiana University women who responded had experienced some form of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in education is any attention of a sexual nature from an instructor or professor which makes a student uncomfortable in class or…
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling Services, Females, Higher Education
O'Brien, Eileen M. – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1989
Date and acquaintance rape may be more prevalent on college campuses than in other environments, and colleges are struggling to confront the issue. Sexism and racism contribute to underreporting of and misconceptions about sexual abuse in college settings. Policies, programs, and procedures for combating sexual assaults on campus are recommended.…
Descriptors: Black Stereotypes, College Environment, Colleges, Females
Peer reviewedBarnard, Ian – Feminist Teacher, 1993
Describes reactions by college students to an antihomophobic classroom pedagogy. Asserts that homosexual and bisexual students need to see themselves represented in the classroom. Presents a 30-item selected bibliography addressing this issue. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Higher Education, Homosexuality, Lesbianism
Stein, Nan D. – 1993
This document, part of the Wellesley College (Massachusetts) Center for Research on Women's working papers series, examines the issue of sexual harassment in education. The report explores a number of incidents in which female students have been the targets of unwanted sexual comments, advances, and assaults. Much of the school-based harassment is…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Peer reviewedKramarae, Cheris – NACADA Journal, 1995
Argues that despite claims of gender quality on college campuses, a system of gender differences (particularly communication patterns) puts women at a disadvantage. Focusing on language, several areas in which women students experience harassment in and outside the classroom are identified, and suggestions for changing biased communication…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Environment, College Students, Communication Problems
Download full textWenninger, Mary Dee, Ed. – Women in Higher Education, 1994
This document consists of the 12 monthly issues of a newsletter on women students, teachers, and administrators in higher education, issued in 1994. Each issue includes feature articles, news on higher education, profiles of significant people in the field, and job announcements. The issues' main article topics are: (1) campuses's changing…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Court Litigation, Females
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. – 1987
The document presents partial recommendations of a Pennsylvania State University Study Group on the Status of Women at the University. Recommendations concern family-responsive and flexible employee benefits, clerical advancement and development, retention and advancement of women faculty, and sexual harassment of students. Among specific…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Employed Women, Faculty Promotion, Females
Jacobs, Charlotte; Bergen, Merlynn – 1995
A project at Stanford University Medical School (California) was undertaken to train students to deal effectively with sexism and to promote change by increasing sensitivity of university leaders. Training involved sexual harassment workshops for medical students and faculty, and leadership retreats for deans and chairpersons. Five workshops were…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, College Environment
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. – 1987
The document presents partial recommendations of a Pennsylvania State University Study Group on the Status of Women at the University. Recommendations concern: special populations, sexual harassment in the workplace, sexual violence against women, women's athletics, and health services for women students. Among specific recommendations are the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ethnic Groups, Females, Higher Education
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. – 1988
The final report of the Pennsylvania State University Strategic Study Group on the Status of Women describes activities and presents recommendations concerned with the broad areas of leadership share, structure and quality of University worklife, and structure and quality of the academic environment. Recommendations address the following specific…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Employed Women, Ethnic Groups, Faculty Promotion
