Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is the law that prevents sex-based discrimination directed at students or faculty in any colleges or universities that accept federal funding. Acts of discrimination include exclusion based on gender, sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, sexual battery, and sexual coercion. In this chapter, I’ll talk about Title […]
Category: Title IX
Article: Biden Orders DOE to Review Title IX Rules on Campus Sexual Assault or Harassment
On March 8, President Biden signed an executive order directing the federal Department of Education (DOE) to make a fresh review of its controversial treatment of how colleges and universities conduct Title IX investigations of claims of sexual assault or harassment. Those rules were issued last May by former DOE Secretary Betsy DeVos. The DeVos […]
Article: Education Department Proposes New Rules for Title IX Cases
The Department of Education (DOE), in November of 2018, released its proposed new regulations spelling out how schools and universities should handle complaints of sexual harassment or assault. If adopted, the new rules will replace much-criticized Obama administration guidelines in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent to schools in 2011, but never proposed for public comment. Again without notice and comment, […]
Article: Department of Education’s New Title IX Guidance Draws Lawsuit
Last September 7, in a speech at George Mason University in northern Virginia, Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the Department of Education (DOE) would soon abandon its current guidance, issued during the Obama administration, on how colleges should handle complaints of sexual discrimination, harassment or misconduct. Fifteen days later, DOE followed through by issuing what it […]
Article: Trial Lawyers Hit Title IX Hearings as Lacking Fairness, Due Process
According to a new report by the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL), university students accused in campus hearings of sexual misconduct are “deprived of their fundamental fairness,” and procedures set by colleges and universities in response to a legal mandate enforced by the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) are in […]