Kipnis Case Highlights Perilous Clash of Title IX and Academic Freedom
by Katherine ManganStudents deserve to be educated in an environment free from sexual harassment, and professors, to speak and write freely about sensitive topics. But what happens when federal laws designed to protect those rights "butt heads," as some say occurred during the fallout over a Northwestern University professor’s essays on what she termed "sexual paranoia" on college campuses?Read the rest of the story at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Students deserve to be educated in an environment free from sexual harassment, and professors, to speak and write freely about sensitive topics. But what happens when federal laws designed to protect those rights “butt heads,” as some say occurred during the fallout over a Northwestern University professor’s essays on what she termed “sexual paranoia” on college campuses?
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