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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

Sharf: Colorado Higher Ed Circles the Title IX Wagons

https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2020/01/16/sharf-higher-ed-circles-the-title-ix-wagons-in-colorado/ Sharf: Colorado higher ed circles the Title IX wagons January 16, 2020 By Joshua Sharf The Colorado Department of Higher Education has announced its appointments to its Title IX review committee, and they seem likely to reinforce the system’s bias against college men. This shouldn’t be too surprising coming from a governor who’s OK with campus kangaroo

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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

2019 in Review in Accused Student Litigation

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2020/01/07/2019-in-review-in-accused-student-litigation/ 2019 in Review in Accused Student Litigation By KC Johnson January 7, 2020 In an environment where accused students too often need to go to court to undo unfair Title IX adjudications, lawsuits against universities continued apace in 2019. A critical ruling in the Seventh Circuit highlighted the year, but some troubling rulings elsewhere

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Title IX

Suspended prof fights in court for his job

https://www.abqjournal.com/1406875/suspended-prof-fights-in-court-for-his-job.html?cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=3913353 Suspended prof fights in court for his job BY RYAN BOETEL / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Sunday, January 5th, 2020 at 11:19pm Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal A tenured University of New Mexico professor who was suspended for all of 2020 after UNM found he violated sexual harassment and Title IX policies has taken the fight

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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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Title IX

6th Circuit Returns Title IX To Its Davis Roots (Updated)

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2019/12/13/6th-circuit-returns-title-ix-to-its-davis-root/ You might have read about the Supreme Court’s decision in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education. It’s been discussed here numerous times. But it’s never mentioned in anything written by a Title IX activist group or article about “survivors” or the rape epidemic on campus. No college dean ever refers to it, although the lawyers