Dr. Chris Taylor

There is a lot of money to be made convincing young men that something is wrong with them. The trick isn't necessarily convincing them that they are hopeless. It may be more profitable to convince them they are almost there. A little more muscular. A little richer. Better looking. More dominant. Better with women. More respected. There is always someone online willing to sell them the thing that will finally get them there. A recent WIRED article, “The Manosphere Isn't a Movement. It's a...

As a former Dean of Students and BIT Chair, I constantly worried about how we applied our often-limited resources. Most of those resources, as anyone who has sat around a BIT/CARE table knows, are the people at that table, and most of them already wear two or three other hats. Add in the fact that there are typically plenty of cases competing for the team's attention, and figuring out where to put our time and energy becomes a pretty important part of the work. I learned that one of the...

If you work on a Behavioral Intervention Team or CARE team, you know how quickly things move. A new law appears. A case at another campus raises important questions. Someone shares a reporting strategy or meeting process that suddenly makes you rethink how your own team operates. Most of us learn about these things in pieces: a conference session, a listserv thread, a conversation with a colleague between meetings. The goal of this blog is simple: to bring useful ideas about BIT and CARE work...