While universities can suspend and expel students for committing sexual violence and other kinds of illegal misconduct, they face logistical and financial limits to preventing such behavior.
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College rankings can be consequential for less prestigious and less wealthy schools, giving them visibility they might not otherwise have.
We overestimate how much other people notice our own behaviour and any social missteps.
Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality.
To protect against the ups and downs of student life, focus on the things you can control and set clear goals.
Reaping the benefits of uni doesn’t happen through hope or just turning up to lectures. You need to ask questions, and be an active, independent learner.
Ensuring higher education remains a space for ethical decision-making means incorporating at least five principles into forms of assessment.
Faculty members represent a university’s core identity and mission. But no one had systematically studied faculty opinions on matters related to spirituality and religion − until now.
Australia’s women international students are experiencing sexual and intimate partner violence at high rates, new data reveals.
Postsecondary students are particularly vulnerable to repeated COVID-19 infections, putting them at risk for post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Campuses can take action to protect them.
University is often unpredictable but there are things autistic students can do to make the experience more positive.
The economic, civic and intellectual ends of a university education do not need to be placed in opposition to one another. A university education at its best will be attentive to all these ends.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected college towns profoundly and highlighted the complex relationship between universities and their host communities.
Local governments have far too often been let off the hook for approaches that discreetly limit where students may live.
Faculty and university staff are embedding training to prevent gender-based and sexual violence into curricular goals of both arts and STEM classes.
The stabbings at the University of Waterloo remind us that violence for daring to stand in a classroom and speak is still ever-present.
We need to care for those most affected, and consider both how we create safe work and learning environments, and how we de-escalate movements of misogyny, homophobia and transphobia.
Students who play sport drink more heavily and frequently than other students.
There are benefits to taking college classes in the metaverse, but there are also potential problems.
New research has found that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students are more likely to be sexually harassed in a university context than any other students.
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