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PR: Campus Administrators Need to Restore Impartial Investigations, or Face a Surge in Costly Lawsuits

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Campus Administrators Need to Restore Impartial Investigations, or Face a Surge in Costly Lawsuits WASHINGTON / August 11, 2020 – SAVE has published an analysis that documents a dramatic increase in judicial decisions against universities involving biased investigations of sexual assault allegations. In 2014-2016, the average

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Campus Investigations Start By Believing Title IX Trauma Informed

University Administrators Need to Assure Impartial and Fair Investigations, or Face Legal Consequences

SAVE August 10, 2020 The past decade has witnessed a veritable explosion in accused-student Title IX litigation, with over 180 judicial decisions rendered to date that are unfavorable to the university. These lawsuits have exposed universities to costly settlements (and a judgment, in one case)[1], not to mention the attorneys’ fees that likely exceed $100,000

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Can Lockdown Learning Liberate Male Students?

by Wendy McElroy The COVID-19 cloud hanging over North American universities may contain a ray of sunlight. It may ease what is called “the boy problem” in education—a significantly reduced number of male students and of male achievement in colleges. As bleak as isolated learning may seem to some, it may be more male friendly

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Campus Department of Education Title IX Trauma Informed

Why TIX and Trauma-Informed Investigations Don’t Mix

As Universities put finishing touches on their Title IX policies, SAVE is advising university counsel to assure Title IX investigations do not rely on methods that are victim-centered, where investigators are encouraged to “Start By Believing”. When investigators start by believing the accusing party, in effect, they are disbelieving the responding party. This leaves no

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Campus Investigations Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment Title IX Trauma Informed

PR: Four Reasons Why General Counsel Should Not Allow ‘Trauma-Informed’ Investigations for Title IX Cases

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Four Reasons Why General Counsel Should Not Allow ‘Trauma-Informed’ Investigations for Title IX Cases WASHINGTON / August 3, 2020 – With less than two weeks remaining before the effective date of the new Title IX regulation, SAVE is advising university counsel to review institutional polices to

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Campus Civil Rights Department of Education Due Process Fair Campus Act Investigations Title IX

To cripple the abusive campus ‘sex bureaucracy,’ rein in the Title IX coordinators

By Alison Somlin If you want to entrench a government policy, make sure someone’s job depends on enforcing it. Even if that person isn’t a true believer in the program initially, she will be by the time her first paycheck arrives – and increasingly after that. That’s certainly the case with the education system’s Title

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Double Jeopardy: SAVE Calls on College Administrators to Assure Due Process Protections for Black Students in Title IX Proceedings

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Double Jeopardy: SAVE Calls on College Administrators to Assure Due Process Protections for Black Students in Title IX Proceedings WASHINGTON / July 28, 2020 – SAVE recently released a study that shows black male students face a type of “double jeopardy” by virtue of being male and

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Campus Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment Title IX Victims

Supreme Court Asked to Review Title IX ‘Circuit Split’

By Greta Anderson July 24, 2020 Former Michigan State University students have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s December 2019 decision in their case against the university, in which a judge delivered a precedent-setting and unfavorable decision for victims of sexual misconduct. The petition to the Supreme Court, made by Emily Kollaritsch and other

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The ACLU’s ‘Death Star’ Client in Its Title IX Lawsuit

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/21/the_aclus_death_star_client_in_its_title_ix_lawsuit_143490.html The ACLU’s ‘Death Star’ Client in Its Title IX Lawsuit COMMENTARY By KC Johnson & Stuart Taylor Jr. June 21, 2020 The American Civil Liberties Union has been deservedly criticized for its May 14 lawsuit indirectly attacking the civil liberties of students accused of sexual assault, who have since 2011 been subjected to grotesquely unfair campus

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Myths and Hoaxes of Sexual Abuse Stoke ‘Politically Useful’ Fear

by Wendy McElroy [S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 For those who want to control a population, fear is more useful than love and far easier to elicit. A culture conditioned to feel knee-jerk