AAUW: Pay gap exits as early as one year out of college
New research released today by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation shows that just one year out of college, women working full time already earn less than their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens.
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The Salt Lake Tribune: BYU changes honor code text about gay students
What a difference just a few sentences can make.
A small but significant change in how Brigham Young University’s honor code may be applied clarifies gay students’ status just weeks after gay-rights advocates were arrested at the school.
The changes, which condemn behavior rather than sexual orientation, “remove a lot of the Gestapo atmosphere from the campus,” said Brett Condron, a BYU freshman.
The new section of the honor code application reads, in part: “Brigham Young University will respond to homosexual behavior rather than to feelings or orientation and welcomes as full members of the university community all whose behavior meets university standards. . . . One’s stated sexual orientation is not an Honor Code issue. However, the Honor Code requires all members of the university community to manifest a strict commitment to the law of chastity.”
The honor code is a set of rules students and staff at the school owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are expected to follow in order to live the “moral virtues encompassed in the gospel of Jesus Christ.” The honor code’s applications clarify the short set of rules. Students who disregard the code can be put on probation and, in rare situations, suspended.
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BBC: Will universities exclude middle classes?
Picture the scene: the crumpets are toasting gently over the fire, the college butler is serving tea from the silver tray, bicycle clips and gowns have been removed, and the admissions tutors are settled in their deep leather armchairs, choosing next year’s student intake.
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One female faculty member resigned and four males filed a legal grievance in response to a recent report claiming a hostile work environment exists toward women in UT’s history department.
The report, compiled by the Office of Institutional Diversity and leaked to the press on Thursday, said interviews with females in the department revealed that “these female faculty members feel that they are addressed in a condescending manner, are patronized and simply not respected as scholars.”
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Sports Illustrated: Ex-Penn State player, Portland settle discrimination complaint
A former Penn State women’s basketball player on Monday settled a discrimination lawsuit against longtime coach Rene Portland, more than a year after claiming that Portland had a “no lesbian” policy on her team.
Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon and the lawyer for former player Jennifer Harris said the agreement called for settlement terms to remain confidential.
“I’m proud to have brought this case, and I’m thrilled that we have been able to resolve it,” Harris said in a statement.
In a December 2005 lawsuit, Harris accused Portland of “humiliating, berating and ostracizing” her, and claimed she was told that she needed to look “more feminine.” The suit alleged that Portland tried to force Harris, who says she is not gay, to leave the team.
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Inside Higher Ed: Gender Change Costs Dean a Job
Religious institutions have long had leeway to hire and fire based on creed. But what happens when a man who professes the faith also starts to appear on campus as a woman?
At Spring Arbor University, a Michigan institution affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the pending termination of a transgender faculty member (and ordained Baptist minister) has raised just that question. John — who now goes by Julie – Nemecek, the former associate dean for The School of Adult Studies, said she was demoted after sharing her diagnosis of gender identity disorder with supervisors. She has filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint, alleging that the university discriminated against her based on sex and perceived disability.
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Inside Higher Ed: Defeat for Same-Sex Benefits
A Michigan appeals court on Friday ruled that public colleges and universities in the state may not offer health insurance or other benefits to the same-sex partners of employees. The ruling said that a state ban on gay marriage, approved by voters in 2004, barred such benefits.
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Christian Science Monitor: Bush’s double standard on race in schools
The White House opposes considering race in school admissions, but supports it for evaluating schools’ performance.
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Dallas Morning News: Baptists at odds over removal of female professor
Conservative Southern Baptists are fighting again, this time over whether women should be able to teach men in seminary theology programs.
They agree that the role of pastor is reserved for men, based on a verse in 1 Timothy in which the Apostle Paul says, “I permit no woman to teach or have authority over a man.”
But some conservatives say Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, under president Paige Patterson, wrongly applied the verse to remove from its faculty Sheri Klouda, who until last year had been teaching men Hebrew in the seminary’s school of theology.
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Centre Daily Times: State eyes PSU probehttp://
A string of discrimination complaints against Penn State may instigate a state investigation into the university.
The state Human Relations Commission is concerned about the volume of complaints, Chairman Stephen Glassman said Tuesday. An official count was not immediately available.
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Diverse Magazine: Duke Fallout Continues as Top Black Professor Resigns From Race Committee
The Duke University professor heading a university-appointed committee to investigate race relations on campus in the wake of last spring’s men’s lacrosse scandal has resigned from that committee in protest against the recent decision to invite two of the players back on to campus.
“The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship,” says Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke. “I could no longer work in good faith with this breach of common trust.”
The Independent: Christian students take ‘equality’ row to court
Christian students are taking legal action against their university’s Student Guild in an equal opportunities row.
The Exeter University Evangelical Christian Union today issued High Court proceedings seeking a judicial review.
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HAARETZ.com: Today more Israeli Arabs in higher education, still far less than Jews
The percentage of Israeli Arabs who attend higher education institutions has risen by 7 points between 1991 and 2002, but remains significantly lower than that of their Jewish counterparts, according to a recent report by the planning and budget committee of the Council for Higher Education.
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Diverse Magazine: Supreme Court Hears Arguments For Voluntary Desegregation
During oral arguments Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court, neither the attorneys fighting race-conscious school assignments, nor the justices in their questioning, suggested that racial diversity was an unimportant goal. The primary issue before the court was whether achieving racial diversity in schools is a compelling enough goal to justify government intervention.
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The Boston Globe: Harvard civil rights group headed to LA
The Civil Rights Project at Harvard is moving to the University of California at Los Angeles, along with its director, Gary Orfield, depriving the university of a prominent voice in the national debate about racial justice.
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Los Angeles Times: Affirmative action era is over, longtime foe says
Former UC regent Ward Connerly, buoyed by success of Michigan measure, is eyeing new targets.
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: UW Catholic group files suit
The Catholic group that serves the University of Wisconsin-Madison student population filed a lawsuit earlier this month against University of Wisconsin officials and members of the UW Board of Regents. The suit, filed by the UW Roman Catholic Foundation, claims that a university policy discriminates against religious groups.
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Daily Mail: Christian university students face discrimination, say bishops
Christian students at many British universities are facing “considerable opposition and discrimination”, church leaders have claimed.
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The New York Times: Public Colleges as ‘Engines of Inequality’
Democrats who ran for Congress this fall made the cost of college a big campaign issue. Now that they’ve won control of the House and Senate, they can prepare to act swiftly on at least some of the factors that have priced millions of poor and working-class Americans right out of higher education. The obvious first step would be to boost the value of the federal Pell Grant program — a critical tool in keeping college affordable that the federal government has shamefully ceased to fund at a level that meets the national need.
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The Daily Free Press: BU group offers white scholarship
Looking to draw attention to what they call the “worst form of bigotry confronting America today,” Boston University’s College Republicans are circulating an application for a “Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship” that requires applicants be at least 25 percent Caucasian.
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