You’d think the 2024 Title IX Rule, due to take effect August 1, 2024, would use the most modern, inclusive definition of sexual assault available. You’d be wrong. You’d think it would be automatically compatible with the definition colleges and Read More …
Category: Campus Sexual Violence
Clery Act Requires Transparent Appeals in Sexual Misconduct Cases
Education Department Holds Both Complainant & Respondent Must be Allowed to Respond if the Other Appeals The U.S. Department of Education last year found a Maryland university in violation of the Clery Act for failing to allow a complainant in Read More …
Congress Appropriates $1 Million for Campus Sexual Assault Climate Surveys
Federal Agencies Will Create Online Portal for Survey to be Administered by Colleges & Universities Washington, DC – Late last year Congress, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, appropriated $1 million dollars “for surveys on the campus sexual assault Read More …
Campus Climate Surveys Due In 2024 Will Significantly Expand On Clery Act Sexual Violence Data
Under new federal legislation, enacted on March 15, 2022 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, campus climate survey data for individual college and university campuses is due to be available by 2024. These campus climate surveys will collect Read More …
President Biden Signs Most Consequential Campus Sexual Violence Legislation In A Decade
Washington, DC – President Joe Biden on March 15, 2022 signed the most consequential campus sexual violence legislation in a decade into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 government funding bill (Public Law No: 117-103). The measure Read More …
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Campus Climate Survey Research and Resources (January 21, 2016)
This blog was originally published on January 21, 2016. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this week released a landmark new study on sexual violence in higher education that is consistent with prior national data, but most significantly demonstrated Read More …
In Implementing New Title IX Policies Clery Act Considerations Are a Must
As colleges and universities prepare to implement new Title IX policies by the August 14, 2020 effective date of new regulations it is important to not forget related Jeanne Clery Act requirements. Institutions of higher education must comply with both Read More …
The Title IX NPRM Would Discriminate Based On Sex
The Title IX Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published earlier this week is fundamentally flawed because it would treat sex-discrimination civil-rights protections unequally from other civil-rights enforced by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Notably OCR Read More …
How to Comment on the Title IX NPRM
After more than a year in preparation, the formal proposal by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to bring sweeping changes to Title IX sex-discrimination regulations is set to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow morning, Thursday, November 29, 2018. The Read More …
Ruling That Accused Entitled to Cross-Examine Accuser in Campus Rape Cases is “A Bridge too Far”
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion in Doe v. Baum, et al. on Friday, September 7, 2018 that has the potential to substantially change college and university conduct proceedings. A three-judge panel held in a Read More …