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Kipnis Case Highlights Perilous Clash of Title IX and Academic Freedom

A dispute over a Northwestern professor's essays shows how Title IX protections and academic freedom can come into conflict on campus.

The Kipnis case at Northwestern University shows how Title IX protections and academic freedom can clash, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
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by Katherine Mangan

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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