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Page, Tiffany – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This article draws upon the 2020 review commissioned by the University of Strathclyde in the UK into the sexual misconduct of an academic staff member, Kevin O'Gorman, to examine competing and multi-varied forms of precarity in UK higher education. It considers how precarity as a political condition has the ability to shift and attach to different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, College Faculty, Crime
Universities UK, 2021
This guidance suggests actions universities can take to tackle antisemitism. It builds on the principles of our "Changing the Culture" framework and outlines how the recommendations in our tackling racial harassment guidance may be applied to antisemitic racial harassment. Antisemitism -- prejudice or hatred towards Jews -- is wrong and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Jews, Social Bias
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McGann, Patrick; Palmer, Jane E.; Thomas, Greerlin; Ricci, Lauren; Haake, Leah – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
To respond to the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses, many postsecondary institutions have instituted campus climate surveys, strengthened sexual assault misconduct policies, and created sexual assault task forces to coordinate entities "within" the institutional setting. However, few colleges and universities have engaged…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Crime, Rape, College Environment
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Johnson, David R.; Zhang, Liang – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
The persistent problem of sexual assault on college campuses is receiving attention in both the public sphere and state legislatures. Although a considerable body of research examines various aspects of campus sexual assault, such as rates and reporting, scholars have not examined how state characteristics and interstate dynamics influence the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Educational Policy, Sexual Abuse, Crime
Association of American Universities, 2017
This report describes the policies and programs implemented and reported through an institutional survey undertaken by Association of American Universities (AAU) member universities to prevent and respond to campus sexual assault and misconduct. Fifty-five of the 62 leading research universities that comprise AAU's membership completed the survey,…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Rape, Crime Prevention, Crime
Spitzberg, Irving J., Jr.; Thorndike, Virginia V. – 1992
This book addresses the critical and difficult issues facing higher education in the 1990s including the need to improve the quality of teaching and learning, raise academic standards, protect freedom of expression, and enhance both the community of the whole and the individual and small groups that make up that community. The book also examines…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Academic Standards, Campuses, College Environment