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Title IX

DeVos’s Rules Bolster Rights of Students Accused of Sexual Misconduct

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/us/politics/campus-sexual-misconduct-betsy-devos.html DeVos’s Rules Bolster Rights of Students Accused of Sexual Misconduct Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released final regulations for schools dealing with sexual misconduct, giving them the force of law for the first time and bolstering due-process rights. The rules preserve Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s broad goals in overhauling Title IX. By Erica L. Green May

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Campus Due Process Free Speech Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment

PR: 266 Professors Nationwide Issue Call for Prompt Restoration of Free Speech and Due Process on Campus

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org 266 Professors Nationwide Issue Call for Prompt Restoration of Free Speech and Due Process on Campus WASHINGTON / May 4, 2020 – A group of 266 distinguished faculty members today is releasing a Faculty Resolution in Support of the Prompt Restoration of Free Speech and Due

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Title IX

Biden’s Reade Denial Should Boost Title IX Rule Changes

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/03/bidens_reade_denial_should_boost_title_ix_rule_changes_143098.html Biden’s Reade Denial Should Boost Title IX Rule Changes COMMENTARY By KC Johnson & Stuart Taylor Jr. May 03, 2020 (Biden for President via AP) Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have suddenly come to realize that their previously professed, reflexive belief in sexual misconduct accusations was the wrong standard. Instead, with the sexual assault allegation

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Sexual Harassment

Digital Dating Abuse: Many Teens, More Often Boys, Are Being Harassed Online By A Partner

https://www.studyfinds.org/digital-dating-abuse-many-teens-more-often-boys-are-being-harassed-online-by-a-partner/ (© Graphicroyalty – stock.adobe.com) February 13, 2020Children, Facebook, Mobile Phones, Relationship Studies, Science & Technology, Social Media, Society & Culture Digital Dating Abuse: Many Teens, More Often Boys, Are Being Harassed Online By A Partner by John Anderer Study author: “Girls may use more violence on their boyfriends to try to solve their relational problems, while boys may try to

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Title IX

Release The New Title IX Regs, Madam Secretary

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/05/04/release-the-new-title-ix-regs-madam-secretary/ Release The New Title IX Regs, Madam Secretary Even the last of the trailing indicators, Elizabeth Bruenig, can’t avoid facing the one thing, the only thing, that is known with absolute certainty now. This is collateral damage that Democrats — who have spent the last few years championing the #MeToo movement — should be loath to incur.

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Domestic Violence Violence Against Women Act

Open Letter to Sen. Joni Ernst Regarding Her VAWA-Coronavirus Letter

April 22, 2020 Dear Senator Ernst: I recently donated $50 toward your re-election campaign, so I was especially disappointed that you co-signed the letter demanding that coronavirus bills provide funding for Violence Against Women Act programs: https://www.ernst.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/e899e13a-b415-45b9-a099-bb36394d7a52/76B673E37BDB48B336800CA110FDC429.final-letter-on-domestic-violence-programs-at-doj.pdf VAWA is a biased and unproductive program that Joe Biden pushed through while specifically excluding testimony from

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Action Alert Campus Due Process

Release the Regs! Release the Regs!

SAVE April 21, 2020 The civil rights of K-12 students, and university students and faculty, continue to be trampled on as each day passes. It is past time for the Department of Education to publish the new Title IX regulations, because “Justice delayed is justice denied.” [1] We need your help. Apparently Secretary DeVos and

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Title IX

Callisto Campus, tool for documenting sexual assault at colleges, discontinued

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/04/16/callisto-campus-tool-for-documenting-sexual-assault-at-colleges-discontinued/ Callisto Campus, tool for documenting sexual assault at colleges, discontinued Callisto reverses decision to delete account data following user concerns In an announcement on the services website, Callisto users found out that their data of sexual violence reports would be deleted in June. Callisto eventually changed its decision. (Photo: MICHAEL ESPINOSA/The Stanford Daily) By Esha

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Title IX

COVID-19 Must Not Delay Enactment of New Title IX Regulations

https://www.insidesources.com/covid-19-must-not-delay-enactment-of-new-title-ix-regulations/ U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (Credit: Gage Skidmore) COVID-19 Must Not Delay Enactment of New Title IX Regulations April 16, 2020 by Patricia Hamill and Samantha Harris Sixteen months ago, the Department of Education proposed Title IX regulations that take seriously the rights of both victims and the accused in campus sexual misconduct

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Due Process Sexual Assault Title IX

Reform Title IX Now

by Wendy McElroy April 14, 2020 The Department of Education’s (DOE) reform of Title IX—the law that bans discrimination based on sex at federally-funded schools—has been a long time coming. For three Senators, it has not been long enough. They strenuously object to the impact on how colleges handle accusations of sexual misconduct. No longer