Title IX

It's not just for Brett Kavanaugh.

Betsy DeVos can issue new rules, but it’s no guarantee that she can change the cultural climate.

DeVos seeks to remove administrative approval for religious schools’ waiver from the 1972 gender parity law.

Betsy DeVos undoes a major campus injustice.

The Education department issues a draft of rules to replace Obama’s “Dear Colleague” letters on sexual assault.

Nearly a year since DeVos rescinded the controversial campus rape regulation, nothing’s changed.

Plus, Title IX... forever?

The March 7 acquittal by a New Haven jury of a suspended Yale student on charges of raping a classmate has been much lamented on campus and in the national media. But a review of the evidence shows that the trial was fair, the defense was ethical, and there was much more than a reasonable doubt…

The March 7 acquittal by a New Haven jury of a suspended Yale student on charges of raping a classmate has been much lamented on campus and in the national media. But a review of the evidence shows that the trial was fair, the defense was ethical, and there was much more than a reasonable doubt…

Press coverage of the acquittal of former Yale student Saifullah Khan on sexual assault charges has distorted the facts of case, jurors say. Khan’s case—an alleged campus sexaul assault that triggered a police investigation and worked its way to criminal court—concerns an encounter between the now…

In Secretary Betsy DeVos’s latest deregulatory step, the Department of Education has said it will not investigate or take action on complaints from transgender students regarding the open use of restrooms in public schools.

Women are more likely to have been sexually assaulted by the age of 44 if they didn’t go to college, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. The study, spearheaded by sociology professor and researcher William Axinn, found that the risk of “experiencing forced intercourse” is more…

In November 2014, a female member of Brown University’s debate team had oral sex with a male colleague while they watched a movie. Eleven months later, she filed a complaint with Brown, accusing him of sexual assault.

The Sacramento statehouse, according to conventional wisdom, is a bellwether for social policies that soon sweep the nation. This week, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the legislature's attempt to give Obama-era Title IX guidance the force of law that it never had nationally.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on September 22 formally rescinded the Obama administration’s commands that universities use unfair rules in sexual-misconduct investigations—rules that had the effect of finding more students guilty of sexual assault. And she appears also to be preparing for far…

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on September 22 formally rescinded the Obama administration’s commands that universities use unfair rules in sexual-misconduct investigations—rules that had the effect of finding more students guilty of sexual assault. And she appears also to be preparing for far…

Just as she told the public she would, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded the Obama administration’s controversial guidance on Title IX Friday. A new set of guidelines—in the form of an interim “Q&A on Campus Sexual Misconduct”—will take its place until replacement rules receive full notice…

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American liberals think of themselves as champions of the excluded and ill-treated, friends of the little guy persecuted by the system. Their instinctive sympathy for the disadvantaged and overlooked is evidence of a charitable worldview and a peculiar inheritance of Christian humanism. For a…

Give the Trump Education Department credit for rescinding the Obama Ed’s “Dear Colleague” letter of 2011 and opening a discussion about the meaning of Title IX. Under that law, “No person shall . . . on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected…

Eight months into the Trump administration, a long-awaited campaign to unwind Obama’s legacy on Title IX appears to have begun in earnest. Early Thursday afternoon in a speech at George Mason University, Betsy DeVos condemned the Obama administration’s 2011 “Dear Colleague Letter,” that has had an…

Title IX is a Nixon-era federal law barring sex discrimination in schools. Under the Obama administration, it became a mandate for colleges to adjudicate claims of sexual misconduct with an imbalanced extrajudicial standard. The Department of Education’s infamous “Dear Colleague Letter” of April…

Zoe Katz, a 22-year-old college student, waited six months to go public with her side of the scandal that's darkened her senior year at the University of Southern California. She waited not because she fears retribution from an abusive partner, as her school’s Title IX office reportedly insists.…

There’s a lot riding on a Title IX summit that’s happening at the Department of Education today. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will meet privately with sexual assault victims and advocates who want her to maintain the campus sexual assault provisions decreed by the Obama administration (and plan…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, reporter Alice B. Lloyd discusses her recent story "There Is No Easy Way to Clean Up Obama's Title IX Mess."

Dismantling Obama-era over-regulation is supposed to be a top priority of the Trump administration. And few regulations have caused as much consternation as Obama's reinterpretation of Title IX. Alas, no amount of subsequent policy can easily disentangle this overreach from campus life.

For nearly six years now, a federal mandate has manhandled American colleges. The Department of Education's 2011 guidance on campus sexual misconduct reinterpreted a gender parity law—Title IX of the Higher Education Act—to police colleges' responses to reported sexual assaults. In so doing, the…

For nearly six years now, a federal mandate has manhandled American colleges. The Department of Education’s 2011 guidance on campus sexual misconduct reinterpreted a gender parity law—Title IX of the Higher Education Act—to police colleges' responses to reported sexual assaults. In so doing, the…

The new administration's uncertain higher education policy took two strides into the light this week. First came the announcement of Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.'s appointment to lead Trump's White House task force on higher education reform. And then, responding to fiery, riotous…

2015 was the year campus culture wars broke out into mainstream consciousness—from Laura Kipnis's Title IX witch trial to the Halloween costume crisis at Yale's Silliman College, the dark side of trigger warnings and microaggressions met the harsh light of public debate.

In case your awareness hadn't been sufficiently raised, the Obama White House, once more in its final weeks, elevated the campus rape narrative that it has helped spin into a panicky national conversation. The "It's On Us" campaign, launched in 2014 to combat "rape culture," bid farewell to its…

Repeal of North Carolina's controversial House Bill 2, the so-called "bathroom bill," was expected to take place Wednesday with bipartisan support. But without consensus in the state legislature's last session, the repeal effort failed.

Amid aftershocks of the Trump victory, education policy experts are picking through his campaign promises and proposals looking for ideas they can work with, and wondering what they can expect. Streamlining the Department of Education? Likely. Hacking off the tentacles of its undue influence?…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with reporter Alice Lloyd on the absurdity of Title IX on campus.

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This week, the president and vice president revealed plans to intensify their personal crusade against campus "rape culture." President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will "put the pedal to the metal," per the Washington Post: They, their wives, and cabinet members won't set foot on college…

"That’s the good thing: As a president I can do whatever I want." Those are President Obama's words. He may have meant it as a joke, but it's true enough: He, or any president, can do whatever he wants, even unwise things—provided they are legal.