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National Women’s Law Center’s Bag of Title IX Tricks

SAVE April 8, 2020 On September 22, 2017, the Office for Civil Rights announced its withdrawal of the flawed 2011 Dear Colleague Letter. This unlawfully issued policy has been documented to have disastrous effects for students, faculty, and university administrators. [1] Fourteen months later, the Department of Education released its proposed Title IX regulations. In a

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NAS Commends Secretary DeVos, Encourages Education Department to Issue New Title IX Regulations Soon

https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/national-association-of-scholars-commends-secretary-devos-encourages-education-department-to-issue-new-title-ix-regulations-as-soon-as-possible NAS Commends Secretary DeVos, Encourages Education Department to Issue New Title IX Regulations Soon April 03, 2020 NAS commends Secretary DeVos for her attention to Title IX, the federal law which bans sex discrimination at schools receiving federal funds. We especially applaud the Secretary for rescinding Obama-era directives, which mandated recipient schools create Title

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Campus Sexual Assault Title IX

PR: Chaos on Campus: Lawmakers Seek Answers for Failure of Sexual Assault Policies

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Chaos on Campus: Lawmakers Seek Answers for Failure of Sexual Assault Policies WASHINGTON / April 7, 2020 – Lawmakers are increasingly impatient over the failure of new campus policies to make a dent in the problem of sexual assault. The concerns have come into focus following

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Can The “Single Investigator” Model Ever Be Fundamentally Fair?

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/04/06/can-the-single-investigator-model-ever-be-fundamentally-fair/ Can The “Single Investigator” Model Ever Be Fundamentally Fair? At oral argument in Doe v. University of Sciences before the Third Circuit, an issue that gets only tangential consideration was front and center: Can the schools using the “single investigator” model for Title IX sexual determinations suffice as a fundamentally fair method? KC Johnson provides

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Democratic student groups call for investigation into Biden for sexual assault allegation

https://www.thecollegefix.com/democratic-student-groups-call-for-investigation-into-biden-for-sexual-assault-allegation/ Democratic student groups call for investigation into Biden for sexual assault allegation GREG PIPER – ASSOCIATE EDITOR •APRIL 1, 2020 Unlike ‘wall-to-wall coverage for Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’ Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made his name in the past decade as a tireless champion of denying due process to students accused of sexual misconduct, devising the

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Title IX

Coronavirus Is No Excuse to Delay the Education Department’s New Title IX Regulations

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/coronavirus-is-no-excuse-to-delay-the-education-departments-new-title-ix-regulations/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_1116119&cid=db&source=ams&sourceId=61225 LAW & THE COURTS Coronavirus Is No Excuse to Delay the Education Department’s New Title IX Regulations By JUSTIN DILLON & KC JOHNSON March 30, 2020 2:35 PM An empty lecture hall in the Palazzo Nuovo University of Turin after the government’s decree closing schools and cinemas and urging people to work from home and not stand

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#MeToo Campus Title IX

University Administrators Rack Up “Excuses” for Delaying New Title IX Regulations

SAVE March 31, 2020 “The dog ate my homework” is one of the oldest excuses students use to rationalize their delay in turning in an assignment. The coronavirus pandemic is one of the newest excuses universities and others are using to request the Department of Education suspend the Title IX rule making process, which has

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How Do You Stop A Problem Like University of Michigan?

https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/03/28/how-do-you-stop-a-problem-like-university-of-michigan/ How Do You Stop A Problem Like University of Michigan? When the Sixth Circuit ruled in Doe v. Baum, following up on its decision in Doe v. University of Cincinnati, the law appeared settled: The male students accused of sexual misconduct were entitled to cross-examination in Title IX sexual misconduct proceedings. Problem solved, right? So

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Public university opens girls-only STEM camp to boys to resolve Title IX investigation

https://www.thecollegefix.com/public-university-opens-girls-only-stem-camp-to-boys-to-resolve-title-ix-investigation/ Public university opens girls-only STEM camp to boys to resolve Title IX investigation ALEXANDER PEASE – UMASS BOSTON •MARCH 27, 2020 Still no images of boys on the brochure Grand Valley State University opened its STEM summer camp for girls to all students in order to resolve a Title IX complaint filed by a professor

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Nebraska Judge Rules False Allegations are a Form of Domestic Violence

SAVE March 27, 2020 Can false allegations be considered to be a form of domestic violence? In a previous case in Delaware, the judge ruled false allegations in fact represent an attempt to exert power and control over one’s partner. Earlier this week, a Nebraska judge issued a custody decision in a parental alienation case