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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

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Title IX

Let’s Not Delay Due Process On Campus

https://www.iwf.org/2020/04/14/lets-not-delay-due-process-on-campus/ Let’s Not Delay Due Process On Campus Department of Education shouldn’t use COVID-19 as an excuse to delay due process rights of students. Jennifer C. Braceras | April 14, 2020 Under Title IX, colleges have an obligation to address sexual assault on campus. Colleges have a corresponding obligation to treat all students fairly. Unfortunately, many colleges

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Civil Liberties Groups Push Title IX Rule Release

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/10/civil-liberties-groups-push-title-ix-rule-release Civil Liberties Groups Push Title IX Rule Release By Greta Anderson April 10, 2020 Two civil liberties groups have urged the U.S. Department of Education not to delay the release of proposed regulations under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex discrimination in institutions that receive federal funding, despite institutions’ occupation with the coronavirus pandemic

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‘Time’s up to restore due process’: Groups urge DeVos to ignore coronavirus stalling tactics for Title IX reform

https://www.thecollegefix.com/times-up-to-restore-due-process-groups-urge-devos-to-ignore-coronavirus-stalling-tactics-for-title-ix-reform/ ‘Time’s up to restore due process’: Groups urge DeVos to ignore coronavirus stalling tactics for Title IX reform CHRISTIAN LUBKE – CARTHAGE COLLEGE •APRIL 14, 2020 Title IX coordinator spills the beans on ‘delay strategy’ Activist groups who opposed the Trump administration’s proposed Title IX regulations from the start are now citing the outbreak of COVID-19 as

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USA Today claims the NCAA enables a ‘predator pipeline.’ Its evidence is thin.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/usa-today-claims-the-ncaa-enables-a-predator-pipeline-its-evidence-is-thin/ USA Today claims the NCAA enables a ‘predator pipeline.’ Its evidence is thin. WENDY MCELROY – GUEST COLUMN •APRIL 13, 2020 Damning conclusions in spite of many caveats A week after USA Today published a four-part series on student athletes who transfer freely between NCAA schools despite sexual misconduct claims, a university president-turned-lawmaker threatened to cut off

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Campus Due Process Sexual Harassment

Open Letter to the 18 Attorneys General Opposed to the New Title IX Regulation

Nicholas H. Wolfinger April 12, 2020 The long-awaited Department of Education regulations on adjudicating allegations of sexual misconduct on college campuses are poised for release. In response, the American Council on Education (ACE) (1) and eighteen state attorneys general (2) have sought to block the guidelines. I believe this effort is misguided. The regulations would

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National Women’s Law Center’s Bag of Title IX Tricks

SAVE April 8, 2020 On September 22, 2017, the Office for Civil Rights announced its withdrawal of the flawed 2011 Dear Colleague Letter. This unlawfully issued policy has been documented to have disastrous effects for students, faculty, and university administrators. [1] Fourteen months later, the Department of Education released its proposed Title IX regulations. In a

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Campus Sexual Assault Title IX

89 Percent of Colleges Reported Zero Incidents of Rape in 2015

American Association of University Women May 10, 2017 2015 Clery Act Numbers Newly updated data required by the Clery Act indicate that the annual statistics collected by colleges and universities still do not tell the full story of sexual violence on campus. Many studies have found that around 20 percent of women are targets of

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NAS Commends Secretary DeVos, Encourages Education Department to Issue New Title IX Regulations Soon

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/national-association-of-scholars-commends-secretary-devos-encourages-education-department-to-issue-new-title-ix-regulations-as-soon-as-possible NAS Commends Secretary DeVos, Encourages Education Department to Issue New Title IX Regulations Soon April 03, 2020 NAS commends Secretary DeVos for her attention to Title IX, the federal law which bans sex discrimination at schools receiving federal funds. We especially applaud the Secretary for rescinding Obama-era directives, which mandated recipient schools create Title