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Biden Administration Hears From 132,000 and Counting on Title IX Rule

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Biden Administration Hears From 132,000 and Counting on Title IX Rule Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-1251251954.jpg jpg Katherine Knott Mon, 05/15/2023 - 03:00 AM

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MSU Tenure-Track Faculty Look to Unionize

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michigan State University (MSU) tenure-track faculty have launched a public unionization campaign to gain more influence in administrative decision-making, The State News reported. That means faculty can spend months crafting ideas and policies and suggestions that just kind of get file-drawered by the administration and never acted upon."

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Combating Gender-Based Violence on College Campuses Must Start at the Top

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

All too often, instead of taking proactive internal approaches to prevention, schools often spring to action reactively in the face of high-profile Title IX investigations, or legal threats. Our research suggests that few campuses have adopted proactive or comprehensive approaches that move the bar on this important issue.

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Is Title IX really protecting college students from sexual misconduct on campus?

University Business

This summer, the US Department of Education celebrated 50 years of Title IX while proposing new changes to its regulation. Here are the questions they provided officials: From 1/1/2014 through 12/31/2020, how many reports did your institution receive of a student accused of a Title IX offense? A look at the data.

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Court Rejects Suit Challenging Title IX Exemptions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A federal district court last week rejected a suit challenging the right of the Education Department to grant exemptions, as required by federal law, to some religious colleges from certain provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. ” Ad keywords: administrators studentaffairs Is this diversity newsletter?:

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports. They were making demands and holding administration’s feet to the fire.”

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Report Tracks the NCAA’s Progress Toward Gender Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The nine Lewis Rice attorneys who worked on this report have been either college athletes or athletic department administrators. Mullen selected attorneys who had Title IX experience and/or external investigation experience. Lewis Rice works with Division III institutions on Title IX reviews. “It

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