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Higher Education Faced Mounting Enrollment and Security Challenges in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report also highlighted new additions to the top risks list, including public safety (9th place) and a three-way tie for 10th place between general premises safety, Title IX compliance, and political and societal pressures. out of 7 respectively.

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Baylor Confirms Exemption from Title IX Claims

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Department of Education has confirmed that Baylor University, the Baptist research institution in Waco, Texas, is immune from certain Title IX complaints “to the extent that they are inconsistent with the University’s religious tenets,” wrote Catherine E. The confirmation follows other Title IX trouble for Baylor.

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New Book Highlights Systemic Problems in the Title IX Office

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Nicole Bedera discusses her research, which draws on dozens of interviews at one anonymous institution to understand how the Title IX process fails victims.

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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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MSU Tenure-Track Faculty Look to Unionize

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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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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The impact of DEI programs on student success Recent research continues to demonstrate the positive effects of diversity and inclusion initiatives on student outcomes. He showed through rigorous research that diversity resulted in superior problem solving in both research environments and in broader contexts.

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