Biden, a Title IX advocate, has complicated his campaign with behavior toward women; botched transcripts add insult to injury for students; and more.
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By Sarah Brown

Self-defense courses that focus on making female students stronger and more confident can be controversial. Some people say they place a burden on women to protect themselves. PREMIUM

Campus Safety
By Katherine Mangan

The author of a widely publicized study fields questions on whether a rape-prevention program at Canadian colleges puts too much of the onus on women.

Politics
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By Sarah Brown

The former senator and vice president was the most prominent public official behind the federal government’s campaign against campus sexual assault. Yet concerns about his behavior have complicated his advocacy for women. PREMIUM

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Students
By Michael Vasquez

Some records of grades and coursework from the shuttered for-profit colleges are not on stamped or watermarked paper, and some bear the wrong GPAs.

Students
By Michael Vasquez and Dan Bauman

More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class.

People
By Peter Monaghan

In a new book a political scientist argues that the way the cases are handled on campuses harms both the accusers and the accused. PREMIUM

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Advice
By Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan and Wendy Troop-Gordon

Peer review is an inherently imperfect process, but here are some steps that would make it better.

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