The Conundrums of Intersectionality: AAUP Draft Report on "The History, Uses, and Abuses of Title IX"

Today the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released a draft Report: The History, Uses, and Abuses of Title IX .  ...

Embedding Diversity at Penn State: A Progress Report From the Penn State Joint Diversity Awareness Task Force

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)) It has been my great honor to serve as the Chair of the Penn State University Joint Diversity Awareness Task...

The American Law School: Crisis and Opportunities in the 21st Century

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) American legal education is in crisis--that crisis is driven not by conceptual decay but by markets. Changes ...

Proposing a Set of Guiding Principles for Operating Health Care Plans in the Contemporary U.S. University

(Pix ©Larry Catá Backer 2016) There is a new orthodoxy in the development of benefits plans.  Universities now appear to march in lock step ...

The New Harassment--When University Administrators Use Allegations of "Harassment" and "Hostile Work Environment" Against Dissenting Faculty

Issues of harassment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, and other legally protected categories have been at the forefr...