INSIDER’S VIEW: CSU Board of Trustees’ Litigation Report Shows Impact of Due Process Lawsuits
Like numerous schools, California State University posts their Board of Trustees meeting records online. After reading the report, I’ve concluded that CSU is on a mission to get sued by male students at least once every 3-year cycle from each of their 23 campuses for due process/Title IX violations. I’m being a bit hyperbolic, of course, but if litigation trends continue it may not be unrealistic.
Litigation against the CSU system has nearly doubled in the last six years, jumping from ~60 lawsuits to 106. Looking at the graph, we observe that this trend started at the same time the Obama-era Department of Education released its April 4, 2011 “Dear Colleague” guidance letter, which severely infringed upon the due process rights of accused students.
As of 2017, the CSU system enrolled nearly 500,000 students across its 23 campuses, making it the largest four-year university system in the country. It was inevitable that they would be sued, as in our litigious age it’s more a question of when, not if larger institutions are sued. But CSU is also located in a state whose politics are not known for its empathy for men as a group, which increases its likelihood of being sued in this manner considerably. Their Litigation Report provides us with some useful graphs. Let’s unpack the report…
titleixforall By Jonathan Taylor
