
What NYU’s Harassment Scandal Tells Us About Academia’s Culture of Abuse
Sep 2, 2018 · 14 min read
Every professor and graduate student who cared about the future of my career and my sanity told me not to apply to certain graduate schools. I don’t think they were warning me I would be assaulted or sexually harassed. On the contrary, they were warning against a more general kind of toxic culture — where ego and competition got in the way of academics. The phrase…


