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A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year.
The Department of Education has confirmed that Baylor University, the Baptist research institution in Waco, Texas, is immune from certain TitleIX complaints “to the extent that they are inconsistent with the University’s religious tenets,” wrote Catherine E. The confirmation follows other TitleIX trouble for Baylor.
Amy Wilson, the NCAA’s managing director of inclusion, said that as the NCAA began laying out its TitleIX celebrations, there was no doubt that this should be the culmination. It’s a celebration of all the opportunities that TitleIX has provided in education and athletics,” Wilson points out.
The Education Department won’t be able to enforce its new TitleIX regulations, set to take effect nationwide Aug. 1, in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska or South Dakota, a federal judge ruled Wednesday evening.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Education Department cannot enforce new TitleIX regulations in Oklahoma, just one day before the rules were set to take effect.
Collectively, higher education must give this issue the attention and priority it deserves. All too often, instead of taking proactive internal approaches to prevention, schools often spring to action reactively in the face of high-profile TitleIX investigations, or legal threats. Faculty and staff are also at risk of harm.
Laura Rugless Laura Rugless has been named vice president for civil rights and TitleIXeducation at Michigan State University. She served as the associate vice president for Michigan State’s Office of Institutional Equity and TitleIX.
Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has concluded that Troy University did not make reasonable and responsive adjustments responsive to a student’s pregnancy-related adjustment requests during the 2020-21 school year.
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Ashley Owens Ashley Owens has been appointed interim TitleIX coordinator at Pennsylvania State University. She serves as director of student accountability and conflict response on Penn State’s Altoona campus.
Michigan State University Supporters of the union have argued that unionizing would give tenured faculty a larger role in discussions of changes to working conditions, campus safety, promotion and tenure systems, and sexual misconduct and TitleIX issues.
This summer, the US Department of Education celebrated 50 years of TitleIX while proposing new changes to its regulation. It gave educational institutions better guidance on how to provide students with equitable education free from harassment based on sexual orientation. A look at the data.
Uwill stood out among the rest for their innovative technology and ease of access,” said Amy Galley, director of wellbeing and accessibility/TitleIX at Western Wyoming, noting the strength of competition among potential teletherapy providers. Uwill is a leading mental health and wellness solution for colleges and students.
Arcadia University mishandled complaints that a professor was sexually harassing students, violating TitleIX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights said Tuesday.
Walls served as the college’s TitleIX coordinator, special assistant to the president, and staff liaison for the trusteeship committee for the board of trustees. Shannon Walls Shannon Walls has been named interim vice president for institutional advancement at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Walls earned a B.F.A.
The Systemwide Campus Inventory and Campus Action Items Highlights , available on the CSU’s Black Student Success website, includes a listing of awarded projects to be implemented by May 2025.
Vanessa Love Vanessa Love has been appointed director of the Office of Civil Rights & TitleIX at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as assistant vice president in the Office of Compliance & Integrity at Point Park University in Pittsburgh.
After the justices struck down a 40-year precedent last week, experts warn of chaos for higher education amid doubts about the future of TitleIX and gainful employment, among other policies.
“There are all these issues that are piling on educators at all levels and they’re all looking for some help and some relief,” Foley says. Six in 10 higher ed faculty and 48% of K12 teachers have reportedly grappled with mental health in the past two years.
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 TitleIX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Stanley left that year after arguments with trustees and the handling of a TitleIX report involving then-business school dean Dr. Sanjay Gupta. For the rest of her term, Woodruff will work to prioritize accessibility and affordability of education, particularly in engineering and agriculture, she said.
Maureen McGuinness Maureen McGuinness has been appointed TitleIX coordinator for the University of North Texas System. McGuinness holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, and master’s and doctoral degrees in higher education from the University of North Texas.
OCR stated that it found no evidence that the university complied with its Title VI requirements to assess whether incidents individually or cumulatively created a hostile environment for students, faculty, or staff, and if so, to take steps reasonably calculated to end the hostile environment, remedy its effects, and prevent its recurrence.
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s response to a student’s report of sexual assault and stalking “violated TitleIX at every stage” and was “deliberately indifferent,” the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights found in its investigation of the private college.
Mullen selected attorneys who had TitleIX experience and/or external investigation experience. The NCAA has made a concerted effort to implement gender equity principles throughout our work,” said Felicia Martin, NCAA Senior Vice President of Inclusion, Education and Community Engagement. “We
Further presentations at conferences sponsored by the FRN have included “Addressing the Realities of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Offenses for both University Victims and Offenders in the Context of TitleIX Policies and Directives” in Washington, D.C.,
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Chief legal officers, faculty members, university presidents and other college leaders gathered at Touro University New York to share insight, wisdom and even their worries about the changing regulatory landscape of higher education over the past two decades. The symposium, hosted by Touro Law, was recorded and published on its website.
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John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence. I believed we’re going to live out TitleIX,” she said.
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Montgomery College responded promptly in investigating a professor accused of requiring female students to remove their shirts in class but failed to notify students about the results of its investigation, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights found during its own investigation of the college.
By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and TitleIX coordinator. “In Jaamal, who has worked in various positions in higher education for more than a decade, says listening was very important before starting to develop programming.
He left amid a conflict over TitleIX of the Education Amendments of 1972. In the letter, Pettit said Lewis allegedly kept information away from Pettit and obstructed a TitleIX investigation. His resignation came only a few months after the board re-elected him. He has sent a letter to the board chair, John Lewis.
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