‘It’s not a new thing,’ a Yale spokesman said, but it is also ‘not a major problem.’” Read more

This is academia, “A place where deep and lasting collegial bonds are formed, where mentors and protégés can become close friends and where young lives are transformed by a galvanic encounter with knowledge and their own latent capabilities,” as Laura Miller wrote in a 2015 essay for the New Republic

Not to take anything away from this but my good friend is a product of this type of relationship. His parents have been married for 40 years. Read more

There’s got to be a reasonable compromise to be reached here. No, academia can’t be treated as though it’s uniquely immune to sexual harassment rules and laws. But neither will it help the problem to forbid teacher-student relationships, which absolutely are inevitable, just as those in the workplace. There’s nothing… Read more

Many people are turned on by “modesty,” so no, there’s no solution in the way you dress to avoid this kind of attention.
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In a different world, that might have served as a red flag regarding whether he saw his female students as potential sexual partners, rather than as young scholars who’d come to the university to prepare for the rigors of the academy. But it didn’t. This is academia Read more

Amazing how motherfuckers can’t keep it in their pants for 3-4 years. If you’re fucking so smitten, you can start dating after graduation. Read more

Shapland’s story is basically mine — except that I was 17 at the time and he was in his forties. Read more

On the one hand, profs and students banging has a definite power inequity that makes even a consensual relationship shady because I imagine the woman would feel trapped, at least til she finishes his class, for fear of screwing up her grade. Read more

“no longer altruistic hubs for advancing the human race” Read more

Oh, are we talking about this? Because DAMN do I have stories! Between undergrad, grad, and half a decade of working in academia, I will have to get a burner username, but you know! Read more

isn’t being able to hang around 18-to-24-year-olds and impress them in perpetuity the reason people become professors Read more

I wish I still had your adorable naivete. Your office mates be fuckin’. You might not know. But there’s some fucking going down. Read more

When I was in grad school, a professor came back to campus after having spent a year or two elsewhere on some visiting professiorship at some other school. He was probably 50 or so, and was very much what you’d imagine a stereotypical 50-ish liberal arts professor would be, just kind of unkempt, messy, pudgy, just… Read more

So I heard this story from a guy who works in academia, who was told this by an older male mentor. Read more

when you film the orientation videos, do you use actors or actual employees of the company? Read more

I’d say at 24 she’s an adult and capable of making adult decisions but she did decide to major in English. Read more

are the countless students that come on to profs hoping for better grades also on it? Just curious. Read more

Just one of the many reasons I can’t stand any novel about a professor fucking one of their students. And since most publishers are english majors/professors that’s like fucking half of them. Read more

> which questioned if “erotic longing between professors and students” was “unavoidable.”

No. It’s not fucking unavoidable. I work in an office, about 50% women and 50% men, and everyone is 100% a colleague. Some folks are “work-friends” in which there’s mutual camaraderie and we get drinks and discuss life outside of… Read more