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That’s the burning question most medical students who get dismissed or expelled from their medical program immediately or soon ask. Most medical students have a passion for medicine. They want so much to practice medicine,...

College and university students find vaping a popular alternative to smoking cigarettes and other forms of tobacco use. Vaping can supply just as much nicotine as cigarettes, satisfying users who have a nicotine addiction....

No fewer than twenty-six leading advocacy organizations plus fifteen state attorneys general have called on Assistant Secretary Catherine Lhamon of the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to halt the release of...

George Washington University (GW) has issued an apology for failing to disclose to students, faculty, and school staff that a semester-long data analytics program had monitored and captured their locations. Using 6,000 Cisco Wi-Fi...

In mid-March, President Joe Biden approved a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Under this act, the federal government provides increased protections for domestic abuse and sexual violence victims. The VAWA...

According to a recent study published in the National Library of Medicine, medical students face a rate of drug addiction like that of the general population and populations of students in other college and university programs....

The University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill’s vice chancellor for research has been found responsible for engaging in research misconduct after submitting a federal grant application for cancer research to the...

When a college or university charges a student with Title IX sexual misconduct, federal laws and regulations, like those at 34 CFR Section 106, require that the school’s decision-makers remain neutral. But many accused...

As student mental health becomes a priority concern among colleges and universities across the U.S., so are the ways to help promote positive feelings in an atmosphere where stress from immense academic and social pressure is...

Student life can be a stressful undertaking. Degree-seeking youth are subject to rigorous academic workloads, a changing social scene, and preparing for the transformation into adult life. Unfortunately, a student facing...

Civil discourse on college and university campuses has become a hot-button issue more than ever in today’s political and social climate. While the waxing and waning of public opinion is part of the workings of a...

At George Washington University (GW), a student was reprimanded for creating artworks with what was perceived as offensive content. After political posters criticizing the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uyghur...

The prior post tells the story of a noted rape-prevention scholar and his employer, the University of Illinois, together facing a federal lawsuit six female graduate students brought when the university refused to find that the...

The case of a certain University of Illinois rape-prevention scholar illustrates how even a noted sexual assault victim advocate can face sexual misconduct allegations that the accused claims to be false and unfair. The sad irony...

So, your school has suspended you for a semester for academic misconduct. You may be wondering if you have some way around the suspension, maybe like enrolling in another college or university for the suspension term and...

A Chapman University professor sued his students after finding evidence his previous exam prompts were on Course Hero, a popular document-sharing website. According to a report from The Washington Post, the lawsuit filed in the...

No question that a lying accuser’s false allegations of Title IX sexual misconduct can cause the accused student substantial reputational and other harm. How, though, could the accused student recover money damages from the...

Title IX charges, even when outright false and based instead only on the accuser’s deliberate lying, can damage the accused student’s reputation, and cost the student much distress and disruption. A student whom a...

An Accident Waiting to Happen Teaching assistants are students who happen to teach. And students may end up having sexual relationships with other students, whether influenced by peers, parties, or other temptations, even when...

A Real Risk of Job Dismissal College and university employees at many schools can get into big trouble for dating, sexual, or other intimate relationships with the school’s students. A recent New York Times article indicates...