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This surge likely reflects increased scrutiny from federal and state governments over highereducation practices and policies. These changes reflect growing concerns about campus security and the increasingly complex political environment surrounding highereducation.
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.
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 highereducation. Our highereducation institutions must reflect this reality and prepare students for the world they will inherit.
Collectively, highereducation 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. Dr. Monica J.
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.
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.
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. Arizona State.
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.
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.
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.
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 highereducation from the University of North Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.,
After the justices struck down a 40-year precedent last week, experts warn of chaos for highereducation amid doubts about the future of TitleIX and gainful employment, among other policies.
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 highereducation over the past two decades. It is a vexing challenge every day.”
Mullen selected attorneys who had TitleIX experience and/or external investigation experience. Lewis Rice works with Division III institutions on TitleIX reviews. “It Mullen, the lead attorney for this undertaking.
As somebody who has worked at an institution of highereducation 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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Alston decision limits the NCAA’s ability to regulate and govern education-related benefits for student-athletes that increase access to internships and graduate school. The firm is consulted by colleges and universities on DEI and TitleIX issues, but often such requests come after a complaint has been filed. “We
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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 highereducation for more than a decade, says listening was very important before starting to develop programming.
John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. I believed we’re going to live out TitleIX,” she said.
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Washington update: highereducation 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 highereducation. Changing Higher Ed Podcast
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Introduction Minority-Serving (MSIs) enroll high percentages of students facing systemic barriers to highereducation access. University classrooms are important places to transform students’ experiences of highereducation for the better. Clearly, there’s real need to better serve underserved student communities.
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As a doctoral student herself at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, Recktenwald knows the University of Pennsylvania student body is successful and very capable, so she sees her job as providing additional tools for success and refining those tools for student needs. Share it with your colleagues across higher ed.
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Federal Government is continuing to create new guidance for higher ed on the Build Back Better initiative. Department of Education, and changing perspectives in relation to areas such as TitleIX. This includes funding packages, negotiated rulemaking, new leaders at the U.S.
Across the globe there is a continued concern on how highereducation institutions handle student conduct, complaints, and polices when it comes to incidents of sexual assault and harassment.
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Still, Judge Wilken let the model live on because highereducation’s lawyers convinced her that people would not watch the tournament anymore if players got paid. Finally, note that highereducation knows very well how law relates to leadership. Should university trustees be relieved the model is still considered legal?
One of our responsibilities as highereducation leaders is to help guide students so they can thrive in their lives and workplaces after graduation. Our conversations with students also include teaching them how to be nimbler amid changes in the workplace, such as when you work, where you work and even how you dress.
“Since its inception 22 years ago, CHAS has worked with its member institutions to improve the everyday campus experiences of their Black and Latinx students by leveraging collaborative learning across all member institutions,” says Juan Hernandez, associate dean of students for diversity, equity, inclusion, and TitleIX.
But politicians in Iowa and Florida are forcing their agenda on highereducation, policing what students see and learn and how universities manage their affairs. The need for equity and inclusion gave us TitleIX, which prohibited sex-based discrimination in educational settings. Supreme Court.
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