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Allegations of racism or discrimination can derail a medical student’s education and future career faster than you can say “free speech.” It helps to know your school’s conduct policies, but if you do find yourself...

When COVID forced classes off campus and onto the internet at the start of the pandemic, University faculty, staff, and students scrambled to adjust. A wrench was thrown into academia as we know it, affecting the very means by...

The increased need for proctoring software in American education has made students the guinea pigs in a still-developing field. For over 2,000 universities throughout the country, the use of this untested software now poses a...

As 2021 ended, the U.S. Department of Education announced that its upcoming proposals for changes to Title IX laws will be revealed in April of 2022 rather than in May as originally scheduled. In a statement issued on December 10,...

We’ve discussed academic misconduct and extortion[1] in the past. Now, however, cases of academic misconduct are multiplying for two reasons. First, it’s easier and perhaps more tempting to get help with papers...

No one in academia would argue that one of the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the online learning model it’s necessitated, has been the surge in college students cheating. The textbook rental—and so-called...

When you think of authority figures, who comes to mind? Police officers, bosses, parents, and the instructors and administrative personnel at your college or university. Of course, the fact that these folks might have some...

A November 2021 federal report reveals that incidents of bullying behavior in grades K-12 grew alarmingly between 2014 and 2019. The report, entitled “Students’ Experiences with Bullying, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, and...

Several months after the pandemic shutdown forced much of the U.S. into remote learning, plagiarism-detection software company Turnitin published an article that discussed how unsupervised remote learning was providing more...

Helicopter parents or hometown heroes taking a literal stand against violence at their kids’ schools? In Charlotte, NC, the moms and dads of students who attend one local high school are blurring the lines. Parents...

For many young adults, leaving home to attend college is one of life’s most important milestones. All of a sudden, you’ve got an unparalleled amount of freedom. When paired with the stresses that arise from moving,...

Graduate-level programs tend to be small, insular, and highly competitive. While students in these programs often become friends and colleagues that can last for a lifetime, a small circle of folks who are studying the same...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, which was passed as part of the Education Amendments in 1972. You might know this law by its much-more-common moniker of Title IX....

Fully 81% of women and, perhaps even more surprising, 43% of men, report having experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault at some point in their life. Of course, there are also plenty of instances that go unreported—and...

In Part I, we discussed the case of 10 medical students at Dartmouth who were charged by the university for having inappropriately used online learning resources during an exam. The students were later exonerated, but the...

Dropped Zoom calls, constant distraction, social isolation, and even less-successful performance compared to in-person instruction—these are just a few of the frustrations of remote learning in higher education. But...

Healthy debates have traditionally been one of the cornerstones of academic rigor. However, one University of Virginia medical student has been learning the hard way that questioning authority can be tricky in today’s...

December 14th, 2021, marked the one-year anniversary of the first-ever COVID-19 vaccine, which was administered to a nurse named Sandra Lindsay. The development of vaccines by three separate pharmaceutical giants—Modern, Pfizer,...

A Bethesda, MD high school teacher and rowing coach has been arrested on several counts of sexual abuse after a former student came forth to claim a sexual relationship between the two. The Sexual Abuse Allegations Kirk...

In a recent post, we discussed some of the current issues around college sorority and fraternity chapters across the United States. Many students have become proponents of dismantling the Greek system completely, arguing that...