DoED, TitleIX, OCR

Articles specific to Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and Title IX

OCR Says Catholic University Failed to Uphold Rights of Accused Male

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OCR Says Catholic University Failed to Uphold Rights of Accused Male

The Education Department’s civil rights unit recently determined that Catholic University failed to uphold the rights of an accused male student, in violation of the anti-discrimination law known as Title IX. The report from the Office for Civil Rights is the result of a four year investigation into an incident that involved two students, alcohol and a dispute over sexual consent…The Trump administration has declared a shift in federal guidance on Title IX, saying it wants to work more closely with colleges to ensure the due-process rights of all students -including the accused – are protected in sexual violence cases.

washingtonpost.com By Nick Anderson

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‘VICTIM Feminism’ and Title IX Sexual Assault on Campus

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‘VICTIM Feminism’ and Title IX Sexual Assault on Campus

Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The War Against Boys” and “Who Stole Feminism?,” has coined the term “victim feminism,” a school of thought she believes exaggerates the sexual assault problem. Ms. Sommers has argued all along that the Obama model didn’t work. We get her take on what the change means.

nytimes.com  Interview by Stephanie Saulnov

 

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DEAR Prudence Meets Due Process. (This Interview Is Worth Your Time)

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DEAR Prudence Meets Due Process. (This Interview Is Worth Your Time)

“The problem hasn’t penetrated the public consciousness. People don’t know that a young man can be expelled from college without ever having received specific written notice of what he’s alleged to have done wrong.”…”I have not talked to a single young man who’s been through this who wasn’t suicidal, and you hear people say, ‘Well, if he’s a rapist, he should be suicidal.’ OK, but we don’t know he’s a rapist.”

reason.com By Robby Soave

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COLLEGES Fear Losing Millions and Rush to Judgment in Sex Cases-Ruining Young Men

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COLLEGES Fear Losing Millions and Rush to Judgment in Sex Cases-Ruining Young Men

Recently Biden criticized the Trump Administration and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for revisiting Title IX policies for sexual assault investigations on campus. But having represented more than 100 male students on campuses across the country, in both blue and red states, I have seen firsthand how wrongfully accused male students are being unfairly punished, with no opportunity to defend themselves. Recognizing the need to restore due process rights on college campuses, Secretary DeVos and the DoED announced major improvements to a broken system, including providing reasonable interim measures, eliminating double jeopardy, and requiring the consideration of exculpatory evidence. Unfortunately, her announcement was met with divisive political rhetoric and on-going protests.

www.nj.com By Andrew Miltenberg

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TITLE IX Training: It’s Why Hundreds of Innocent Males are Deemed T9 Guilty & Expelled

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TITLE IX Training: It’s Why Hundreds of Innocent Males are Deemed T9 Guilty & Expelled

Since 2011, the federal government has required all universities that receive federal money to provide “training or experience in handling complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence” to adjudicators and investigators.  It makes sense to train those who are assigned to investigate campus sexual-assault allegations, but the ideological regimes used on campuses are designed more to stack the deck against accused students than to ensure a fair inquiry.  “The biggest problem with these training materials, is that if the accuser comes in, contradicts herself and the evidence, all that gets explained away because of ‘trauma.’ Junk science like that makes it extraordinarily hard for students to defend themselves effectively,” says Justin Dillon, a lawyer who has defended dozens of students accused of sexual assault.

weeklystandard.com By Johnson and Taylor

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FACE Mothers and Misleading Campus Rape Statistics

A New York Times article provided a view into the distressing fight that mothers take on to clear their sons who are accused of sexual assault on campus. The stories of these women provide a fresh reminder that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was right to rescind the Obama Administrations guidelines about combating campus sexual assault. Those guidelines eroded rights of accused students and led to a perverse environment on campuses. In many cases, the young men are cleared, but their lives can’t return to “normal” because assault allegations have damaged their name, reputation, and career and education prospects. iwf.org By P. L. Onwuka

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MALES BEWARE! Due Process Rights Flushed Down the Toilet in Massachusetts

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MALES BEWARE! Due Process Rights Flushed Down the Toilet in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Senate has voted unanimously in favor of a bill that looks like it would kill due process for those accused of sexual misconduct on campuses. Due process for the accused was almost eliminated in 2011 by Obama’s Department of Education, but Trump’s Secretary of Education rescinded Obama’s anti-due process guidelines in Sept. 2017.  In Massachusetts, a number of lawsuits filed by accused parties in response to their treatment at the hands of colleges have seen settlements. In a federal complaint involving Brandeis University, Judge Saylor ripped Brandeis administrators for “appearing to have substantially impaired, if not eliminated, an accused student’s right to a fair and impartial process.”…Last month Democratic CA Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a measure to codify Obama’s 2011 guidelines.

iwf.org By Charlotte Hays

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IN REFORMING Title IX and Campus Justice, Betsy DeVos Faces an Unruly Class

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IN REFORMING Title IX and Campus Justice, Betsy DeVos Faces an Unruly Class

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s new agenda for handling allegations of sexual assault is flunking out at colleges and universities across the country. Instead, many say they will continue to adhere to Obama administration guidance issued in 2011 that made it easier to punish alleged perpetrators. It’s not only institutions of higher learning that have vowed to resist the reforms DeVos has outlined. Several states have produced legislation to codify the Obama administration’s guidance. One surprising response came in California where the state Legislature passed a bill aimed to codify Obama-era guidance. But it was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who cited concerns for due process and fairness.

realclearinvestigations.com By Ashe Schow

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WHAT Betsy DeVos Gets Right About Campus Sexual Assault

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WHAT Betsy DeVos Gets Right About Campus Sexual Assault

On Sept. 7, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took on one of former President Barack Obama’s most controversial regulatory actions: a set of 2011 campus disciplinary procedures for students accused of sexual assault. DeVos said [Obama’s] system “is shameful, it is wholly un-American, and it is anathema to the system of self-governance to which our Founders pledged their lives over 240 years ago.”

time.com By Stuart Taylor Jr.

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