Anytime you offer a choice to people — like which restaurant to visit — offer two options. Instead of offering A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J, offer X or Y. This can be within the context of “nearby” or Mexican food, etc. too many choices never helps.

I’m an economist and I fully agree. I did teach about bond prices in my economics 101 class but I’m not sure I would say that’s a basic economic principle everyone needs to know. Why is bond pricing more important than understanding what happens to labor and capital with trade? Why is bond pricing more important than…

I call bullshit. Understanding bonds and investment principles has zero to do with the every day business of making ends meet for 99% of people. And that business about minorities paying more to borrow money? It’s not because they’re dumb/uneducated about how borrowing works, it’s because our financial system actively…

The girl with the shaved head says we can feed our blood to plants

I went through aggressive chemo last year at age 23. I used a sex hormone suppressant (Lupron) to go through temporary menopause to try to preserve reproductive function, but I won’t know whether it worked or not until I try to have a kid.

She doesn’t address it in the article, but can you imagine if she has been trying to get pregnant for years but has had miscarriages? Between 20 and 33% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, but no one seems to think about that when they’re badgering other people about if they are pregnant, why they aren’t pregnant, and…

I don’t have a fraction of this woman’s spirit. I watched that video and I’m still in awe of her.

Yeah, how sad for her that she has to convince her friends that her husband isn’t a monster. Black men and women have to convince EVERY police officer that they aren’t monsters and that reaching for our wallets isn’t worthy of death.

She looks like the 5th lead on a low-budget 70s English sci-fi series.

Oy vey, seriously. As a female college admin, and one who got into this biz specifically to make higher ed a safer, more welcoming place for ALL students (and really, everyone I know in student affairs is coming from the same place), I seriously sideye those dudes you are talking about.

Yeah, and when my disciplinary systems have kicked out students for academic misconduct—you know, labeling them as dishonest cheaters and putting EXPELLED on their transcript for all time—using that same preponderance standard, that doesn’t ruin their lives in the same way at all...because that’s somehow an expulsion…

Esteban v. Central Missouri State College (277 F.Supp. 649, 1967) makes explicit that institutions of higher education have a right to set up disciplinary systems to deal with student misconduct, a right that has been affirmed by the Supreme Court. What you erroneously call a “pseudo court tribunal” is really our…

I have criminal training, can get evidence, and knowledge on how to conduct a trial—and am a Title IX administrator. So...what’s your argument against me doing this work now? (Former attorney, masters in education, by the way.). It isn’t that this is solely criminal or solely administrative: it’s both.

This is a brilliant piece, Diana, as are all of your pieces on this topic. However, as a Title IX Coordinator (at a D-1 school), there were moments where I wish someone like me had been given an opportunity to add information (a few places I saw some misinformation from outsiders on the student judicial process). Very…

The university has to be involved. What happens in the event of one classmate raping another, should the victim be forced to participate in classes with the accused in the months or even years before a trial and verdict is reached.

Universities do not “conduct a trial,” they hold hearings to see whether a student has violated the student code of conduct. This has nothing to do with criminal charges (which a student can still pursue in parallel to reporting the incident to the university).

This is a hilariously dumb comment, I think I might be impressed if it was meant as a troll.

At least one reason college has become more and more expensive is because it has become less and less funded by the government. State and federal tax subsidies were in place up through the nineties, and have been chipped away for the last sixteen years. In their place, the Feds reworked the student loan program to…

YES. I actually think that, if anything, it’s vastly more anti-feminist to pretend that the effects of hormones (and other physical changes associated with both menstruation and pregnancy) aren’t real. All that does is reinforce the poisonous idea that the cis male body is the “normal” one, the “healthy” one, the…

I think what Americans don’t seem to get is countries with free college have much much lower enrollment rates than the US. Not everyone needs to go to college but it seems like that is what is being pushed to high schoolers. I think we need to focus on making trade schools more robust and ending for profit colleges.