Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2024

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 Title IX investigations, or legal threats. Faculty and staff are also at risk of harm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Laura Rugless Laura Rugless has been named vice president for civil rights and Title IX education at Michigan State University. She served as the associate vice president for Michigan State’s Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Their findings demonstrate the significant educational and civic benefits of interracial and interethnic interactions during college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Arcadia University mishandled complaints that a professor was sexually harassing students, violating Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights said Tuesday.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This summer, the US Department of Education celebrated 50 years of Title IX 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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 Title IX issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Ashley Owens Ashley Owens has been appointed interim Title IX coordinator at Pennsylvania State University. She serves as director of student accountability and conflict response on Penn State’s Altoona campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Uwill stood out among the rest for their innovative technology and ease of access,” said Amy Galley, director of wellbeing and accessibility/Title IX 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Walls served as the college’s Title IX 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

Vanessa Love Vanessa Love has been appointed director of the Office of Civil Rights & Title IX at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as assistant vice president in the Office of Compliance & Integrity at Point Park University in Pittsburgh.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 2, 2024

After the justices struck down a 40-year precedent last week, experts warn of chaos for higher education amid doubts about the future of Title IX and gainful employment, among other policies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

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.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

“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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

Maureen McGuinness Maureen McGuinness has been appointed Title IX 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2024

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s response to a student’s report of sexual assault and stalking “violated Title IX at every stage” and was “deliberately indifferent,” the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights found in its investigation of the private college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

Mullen selected attorneys who had Title IX 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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

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 Title IX Policies and Directives” in Washington, D.C.,

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Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The Department of Education recently handed down a $4.5 million fine , the largest-ever of its kind, to Michigan State for “its systemic failure to protect students from sexual abuse” and requires the school “to make major changes to its Title IX procedures.” This article will cover: Title IX and Compliance.

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University Business

JANUARY 30, 2025

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2025

Following an order to address a staggering volume of TitleIX complaints, the Education and Justice Departments are creating a special investigations team, the agencies announced Friday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

As somebody who has worked at an institution of higher education for 52 years, it's particularly disappointing to me that college sport has the worst record of everybody we cover." “We do report cards on all the major professional leagues and college sport has the worst report card,” Lapchick said. “As

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes back Tom Netting, President of TEN Government Strategies, to discuss recent higher education policy changes and challenges, covering FAFSA, Title IX, FSA, IDR, SAVE, NC-SARA, NACIQI, PPA, TRIO, Clery Act, Gainful Employment, Title IV, the Chevron Decision, and more.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

USA TODAY asked more than 100 of the nation’s top public universities for data showing how they handled sexual misconduct complaints under the landmark federal law known as Title IX. The law is supposed to ensure students’ right to an education free from sexual harassment and gendered violence.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

A federal district court on Thursday 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. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 7, 2024

In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed podcast, Tom Netting, President of TEN Government Strategies, joins Drumm to provide a comprehensive update on the latest developments in higher education policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

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 Title IX,” she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 28, 2023

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.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Another year, another opportunity for higher education stakeholders to set the agenda for state policy and improve its value. State support for higher education decreased in more than half of all states between 2020-22 when adjusted for inflation, destroying momentum built over the last two decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

He left amid a conflict over Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. In the letter, Pettit said Lewis allegedly kept information away from Pettit and obstructed a Title IX 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX 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.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

More from UB: Big political win results in a narrower Title IX The Clearinghouse discovered the error when it began compiling data for its Current Term Enrollment Estimates report, which encompasses nearly all institutions and uses a different methodology for first-year students.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

Introduction Minority-Serving (MSIs) enroll high percentages of students facing systemic barriers to higher education access. University classrooms are important places to transform students’ experiences of higher education for the better. Clearly, there’s real need to better serve underserved student communities. Some I share here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

Enrollment remains the biggest risk cited by colleges and universities for the fourth year in a row, according to the 2022 Top Risks Report from United Educators. The risks of sexual misconduct lost urgency; Title IX fell to 10th place, down from third place in 2019–20 and eighth place last year.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Washington update: higher education policy and new regulations podcast. The coronavirus pandemic and the previous Negotiated Rulemaking from Spring 2019 are driving new changes in the current and future regulatory process regarding higher education. Changing Higher Ed Podcast

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