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• College sexual assaults: US campuses' failures seen as 'call to action'
• Catalan language revival fuels backlash in Spain
• How Women, Minorities Can Find Colleges That Offer STEM Support

College sexual assaults: US campuses' failures seen as 'call to action' Posted: 10 Jul 2014 01:20 PM PDT Despite stepped up attention in recent years to sexual assaults on college campuses, many colleges are failing to follow some of the most basic practices for responding to and preventing such attacks. "If we're going to turn the tide against sexual violence, survivors must be protected, empowered, and given the confidence that if they make the difficult choice to report a crime, they will be treated with respect and taken seriously," Senator McCaskill, a former sex-crimes prosecutor, said in a statement. "These results should serve as a call to action to our colleges and universities to tackle this terrible crime." Among schools that reported more than zero sexual offenses to the Department of Education, however, only nine percent had conducted fewer investigations than the number of crimes reported. • Many campuses fail to encourage the reporting of sexual assaults.

Catalan language revival fuels backlash in Spain Posted: 10 Jul 2014 09:39 AM PDT By Fiona Ortiz CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT Spain (Reuters) - Francesca Munoz, the principal at Sant Miquel primary school near Barcelona, is fighting a linguistic crusade that has fueled a remarkable recovery of the local Catalan tongue – and of the region's secessionist movement. For 30 years, public schools in Spain's Catalonia region have taught most subjects in Catalan, not the national Castilian Spanish language. There are now some 10 million Catalan speakers in or near the region bordering France and the Mediterranean, putting the language in a league with Swedish and Greek after it was repressed under the 1939-1975 dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Such is the strength of the Catalan renaissance that it is prompting a backlash among some parents concerned their children are getting short-changed on Spanish, the world's second-most spoken language by native speakers after Mandarin.

How Women, Minorities Can Find Colleges That Offer STEM Support Posted: 10 Jul 2014 07:30 AM PDT When an African-American man became head of the the department for Kelly Mack's degree program at University of Maryland -- Eastern Shore, his presence had a profound effect on her. "It was like the second coming of Christ," says Mack, an African-American woman who is now the vice president for undergraduate STEM education at the Association for American Colleges and Universities. She is also the association's executive director for Project Kaleidoscope, which assists faculty working in science, technology, engineering or math and helps them support students in STEM. Mack, who majored in biology, says when underrepresented minorities and women see people who resemble them teaching science, technology, engineering or math, the experience can be encouraging.

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