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Department of Education

Secretary DeVos Announces New, Proactive Civil Rights Compliance Center within Office for Civil Rights

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-devos-announces-new-proactive-civil-rights-compliance-center-within-office-civil-rights?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term= Secretary DeVos Announces New, Proactive Civil Rights Compliance Center within Office for Civil Rights ‘OPEN Center’ will focus on Outreach, Prevention, Education and Non-discrimination to Promote Equal Access in Education JANUARY 21, 2020 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at

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Title IX

Colorado’s 11-member Title IX review committee includes one rep for accused students

https://www.thecollegefix.com/colorados-11-member-title-ix-review-committee-includes-one-rep-for-accused-students/ Colorado’s 11-member Title IX review committee includes one rep for accused students GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •JANUARY 17, 2020 Heavily stacked with pro-accuser representatives Personnel is policy, as activists sometimes say. And Colorado has made clear via its personnel that it intends to ignore both the courts and the Trump administration’s forthcoming regulations on

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Title IX

Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’

Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’ by Samantha Harris January 15, 2020 Today in Inside Higher Ed, higher education risk-management specialist Brett Sokolow shares his thoughts on the changes coming to campus sexual misconduct adjudications when the Department of Education issues its new Title IX regulations. While he says that “[p]erhaps

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Campus Due Process Sexual Assault

End to the Campus Kangaroo: Department of Education Needs to Promptly Implement New Title IX Regulation

SAVE: Stop Abusive and Violent Environments January 12, 2020 Constitutionally rooted due process is one of the foundations of American society, because it protects individuals from government over-reach and from false allegations. In 1975, Judge Henry Friendly identified key due process procedures.[1] An unbiased tribunal. Notice of the proposed action and the grounds asserted for

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Campus Due Process Sexual Assault

PR: SAVE Calls on Lawmakers to Rein in the Campus Kangaroo

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org SAVE Calls on Lawmakers to Rein in the Campus Kangaroo WASHINGTON / January 8, 2020 – After nine years of campus adjudications that triggered thousands of federal complaints and hundreds of lawsuits, SAVE — a national policy organization — is calling on lawmakers to take steps

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Title IX

DeVos restores fairness to campus sexual misconduct cases

A survey suggests that attempts to address sexual assault on campus, although well intentioned, have done so at the expense of fairness, and, in many cases, the truth. By Jennifer Braceras,Updated January 2, 2020, 1:00 a.m. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.ALEX WONG/GETTY Last summer, Yale University settled a lawsuit by former basketball captain Jack Montague, alleging that the university

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2019: A Banner Year for SAVE

December 31, 2019 In 2019 SAVE — a leader in the national policy movement to restore due process, stop false allegations, and protect all victims — had a banner year. As we close out this year, SAVE is putting a bow on 2019 and gearing up for the challenges and opportunities the New Year is

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Joe Biden Promises To Restore Obama’s Disastrous Campus Kangaroo Courts

https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/12/joe-biden-promises-to-restore-obamas-disastrous-campus-kangaroo-courts/ Joe Biden Promises To Restore Obama’s Disastrous Campus Kangaroo Courts By signaling his intention to restore unfair Title IX guidance, Biden is showing his willingness to eviscerate due process to please far-left activists. By Inez Feltscher Stepman DECEMBER 12, 2019 Joe Biden has learned nothing from the Title IX due process disaster plaguing America’s campuses

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Violence Against Women Act

Violence Against Women Act: Policy Needs to be Driven by Solid Facts, not Fluffy Ideology

Center for Prosecutor Integrity December 11, 2019 The Violence Against Women Act is up for reauthorization this year. And like previous years, VAWA is currently caught up in a partisan cross-fire with dueling versions of the law: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s S. 2843 and Sen. Joni Ernst’s S. 2920. Part of the problem is that VAWA

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Title IX Equity Project

Public university quietly removes ‘women only’ from workout event following Title IX warning

https://www.thecollegefix.com/public-university-quietly-removes-women-only-from-workout-event-following-title-ix-warning/ Public university quietly removes ‘women only’ from workout event following Title IX warning GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •NOVEMBER 14, 2019 ‘After-the-fact, superficial adjustments pretending to suddenly be all inclusive’ Mark Perry’s side hustle of bugging universities that don’t employ him has borne fruit again. The University of Michigan-Flint economist likes to send warning letters to Title