Girls of Color Reflect on Different Ways They Chose a College
When it comes to choosing between historically black or predominantly white colleges, similar concerns about diversity and culture can lead down different paths.
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Road to College Included Hitchhiking with Kids
Two young children and no car didn’t prevent Rita Henley Jensen from enrolling in Ohio State University. She caught a ride with a stranger and her family’s future was transformed, she says in this excerpt from the anthology “Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God.”
Online Game Gets Players Out of Steubenville
Some background voices in the otherwise notoriously cruel Steubenville, Ohio, rape video sound disturbed but also powerless. A new simulation computer game lets students practice active response to sex abuse and avoid being a passive bystander.
Send Your Daughter to Old Dominion, Not Harvard
Ivy League schools may fancy themselves better than most, but on the criterion of how well they protect students from rape, Wendy Murphy urges parents to take a closer look.
Sports Researchers Detail Uneven Playing Field
Decades after the enactment of Title IX, two longtime gender-gap number crunchers can relax and celebrate the huge gain in women’s sports participation. But as they think about winding down, there’s still a big problem with coaching.
Database Spotlights Gaps in Campus Rape Policies
Justice for survivors of campus rape is often weakened by administrators leery of attracting negative press. The Campus Accountability Project confronts this with an online, free, searchable database compiled by students that shows how well a school responds.
Summer Attacks on Choice Could Hurt Campus Safety
It was a long tough summer for Planned Parenthood as opponents went beyond targeting abortion and started in on birth control. Krystie Yandoli says this harms rape survivors and the cause of safe sex.
Investigate Campus Sex-Assault? It’s a Must-Do
Schools have new federal rules about investigating campus sexual assault. A possible gray area in the wording could give some schools wiggle room not to investigate. Wendy Murphy says that would be a huge step back.
Indian School for Muslim Women Triples Enrollment
Enrollment is booming at a women’s college that serves Muslims in a hard-pressed textile neighborhood of Mumbai. One proud parent says the students are defying the low expectations that surround the community and women who wear abayas.
Former Abortion Escort Returns to Old Battle Line
For four college terms Kaitlin Bushinski left the comfort of her campus and served as an escort to women at an abortion clinic. For this essay, she went back to a familiar scene and broke the old rules against talking to hecklers.
