Ingrid Jacques | September 25, 2019 | Student Sexual Misconduct
This article originally appeared in The Detroit News on Sept. 10, 2019. View the original post here. Thanks to expanded roles under Title IX sex discrimination guidelines, university bureaucrats are going to be needing law degrees. Campus investigations and hearings...
Michele Landis Dauber and Meghan Warner | July 18, 2019 | Student Sexual Misconduct
ABSTRACTDespite a long history of reform efforts, college students remain vulnerable to sexual harassment and assault on campus. This essay surveys that history from the 1970s to the present, including a flurry of enforcement activity under President Obama and a...
William Kidder | February 13, 2019 | Student Sexual Misconduct
AbstractPrevention of sexual assault and sexual harassment are major challenges at U.S. colleges and universities today. In recent years a vigorous law and policy debate emerged within the higher education community about Title IX and whether the “preponderance of...
Suzanne Goldberg | January 15, 2019 | Student Sexual Misconduct
The following is an excerpt from an article originally posted on The Chronicle for Higher Education.Requiring cross-examination in campus sexual-misconduct proceedings is among the key features of the Department of Education’s proposed Title IX reforms currently...
Pauline Toboulidis | November 16, 2018 | Student Sexual Misconduct
A press release issued today by the U.S. Department of Education announced the department’s proposal on improving schools’ responses to sexual harassment and assault. The proposed regulation under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits...
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf | July 12, 2018 | Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct
Ohio State University has dissolved its sexual assault unit amid complaints that employees there told survivors they were lying about reports of sexual misconduct and that they suffered from mental illness or were “delusional.” The institution indicated, too, that the...