POLITICO Screws Up on Campus Hearings
…assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; an “advocate” who’s filed a Title IX complaint against UConn; the vice president for education and employment at the National…
…assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; an “advocate” who’s filed a Title IX complaint against UConn; the vice president for education and employment at the National…
“We should be seeing 12,500 cases a year.” So spoke Jennifer Hammat, Title IX coordinator for the University of Texas. As FIRE’s Peter Bonilla tweeted, “That quote put differently: ‘we…
…degrees in the fields have plummeted from 36 percent of graduates to 20 percent. A June 22 statement in The New York Times by Vernon Klinkenborg bore the title “The…
…title: “The Data Shows [sic] There’s No Real Crisis.” Since they don’t have the evidence to back up claims of decline, those who “cry ‘crisis,’” Schmidt alleges, have a different…
…to “promptly resume [any] Title IX investigation as soon as notified by the law enforcement agency that it has completed the evidence gathering process.”) Under the consent agreement, therefore, SUNY…
…not that unusual. Think of John Silber, David Horowitz, Robert Bork, and Charles Murray among the contenders for the title Most Froward Public Intellectual, conservative division. Professor Arkes is by…
Despite a delay caused by settlement talks, Vassar has now filed its response to Peter Yu’s Title IX lawsuit. Unlike St. Joe’s, which at least attempted to defend its actions…
…Title IX accusers, still hasn’t mentioned the Vassar lawsuit. Might it disrupt the preferred narrative?) In this environment, campus advocates against due process might well have paused, to reconsider their…
…have an effect . . . after just six or seven skill exercises.” To spend any more labor on test-prep than those basic tactics is a waste of time. The…
…women in violation of Title IX. Neither the complaint nor most media coverage mentioned the specifics of the policy, which in fact was extraordinarily one-sided in favor of accusers, in…
…Reading his earlier work was always interesting because you never knew which Kennedy you were going to encounter. Based on his unqualified support here “for discrimination” — his title is…
Here’s another Orwellian intervention at a U.S. university by the Federal Government: in response to feminist pressure about the handling (under Title IX and Title IV) of sexual harassment and…
…complaints was so biased against accusers that it violated Title IX. That process (which nearly all news media ignored) denies the accused student a right to counsel in the disciplinary…
…sense. He links to an Atlantic Monthly story on the 2013 scores that bears the title “This Year’s SAT Scores Are Out, and They Are Grim.” Scores were flat from…
(A speech delivered September 19 at a symposium on “Religious Freedom Under Obamacare,” the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.) * * * The official title of this talk,…
…Actually yes. If the University were sued as being in violation of Title IX by not balancing women’s studies with men’s studies… then I’d be able to support something in…
…of Forbes and Harvard Business Review” and as part of the title of many a TED talk. Disruptive used to refer to students and others who had impulse-control “issues” in…
…Civil Rights, claiming that the university had so overwhelmingly failed to address claims of rape on campus that Yale stood in violation of Title IX. At the same time, the…
…IX incredibly broadly, so much so that a procedure that’s all but rigged to find guilt nonetheless violates the Title IX rights of an accuser. At the same time, according…
…college regulations, they argue that Vassar College and Saint Joseph’s University violated their contractual rights, Title IX (which bans sex discrimination), and anti-fraud laws.Their legal claims seem plausible to me,…
…equity principles of Title IX. If true, it would seem that at some point too “little” due process for accused students also would violate the gender equity principles of Title…
…title suggests, Higher Education in America is an exhaustive treatise on the subject, what the book’s promoters call the Bok’s “magnum opus.” An Encyclopedic Approach At almost 500 pages, the…
…2011, has helped to put on the table the issue of the relationship between Title IX and gender discrimination in sexual assault procedures. According to the “Dear Colleague” letter, colleges…
The OCR is back in action, investigating new claims that college procedures dealing with sexual assault do not support accusers enough and so have violated Title IX. The Los Angeles…
…right to appeal, and strongly discourage allowing accused students to cross-examine their accuser as merely having “reminded all colleges . . . that they have myriad obligations under Title IX.”…
…of convictions–which seems to be exactly what at least some defenders of the new standard want. Administrators. The recent parade of Title IX lawsuits–dutifully reported, stenographer-style, by Richard Pérez–Peña in…
…impoverishment of the commission’s report is reflected in its title “The Heart of the Matter,” as if the “head” were outside the domain of the humanities. It suggests that science…
An interesting Title IX case was filed earlier this week in Pennsylvania. (You can read the complaint here.) Brian Harris, a former student at St. Joseph’s University, was expelled from…
…along with the Education Departments’s Office of Civil Rights. It asked–wholly reasonably–under what authority either the DOJ or the OCR interpreted Title IX as giving them the right to create…
…discrimination was inexorably excluding them from corporate and public life. Titles like Why So Slow? or Selling Women Short pinned any discrepancies in earnings and career choices on the patriarchy….