BY JOHN K. WILSON On May 23, the Princeton Board of Trustees voted to fire tenured professor Joshua Katz on the recommendation of a dean and the president, and with the approval of a faculty committee. Katz’s defenders claim that he is being persecuted for his extramural utterances calling a black student group a “terrorist…
BY THE AAUP TITLE IX SUBCOMMITTEE The AAUP released on May 15 a response, prepared by a subcommittee of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Committee on Gender and Sexuality in the Academic Profession, to new Title IX regulations. Below is an executive summary of the response. The full response is available…
BY Z. W. TAYLOR AND PATRICIA SOMERS With the rise of the #metoo movement, sexual harassment and sexual violence in all venues, including educational settings, have received increased scrutiny. Several troubling lawsuits have alleged either that college students were assaulted on campus—and that institutions did not exercise due diligence in Title IX reporting—or that students…
BY RISA L. LIEBERWITZ The AAUP submitted comments today on amendments proposed by US Department of Education to the regulations governing the implementation of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. The AAUP responded, in particular, to a question posed by the education department about “the applicability of the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Secretary DeVos: Proposed Title IX Rule Provides Clarity for Schools, Support for Survivors, and Due Process Rights for All Department of Education Welcomes Public Comment on Draft Rule Continuing its efforts to ensure equal access to education free from discrimination, today the U.S. Department of Education released its proposal on improving…
BY RANA JALEEL AND HANK REICHMAN In October, we learned that the Trump administration is considering a new legal definition of gender under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. Gender would be narrowly defined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable” as…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH If you voted for Donald Trump, even after the Access Hollywood tape was released, you can have no credibility if you not only claim to be outraged by Harvey Weinstein’s behavior but also feel compelled to denounce Progressives for not denouncing him. Likewise, if you were not outspokenly outraged by the…
BY SARANNA THORNTON On September 7, 2017 Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, harshly criticized the “failed system” of policies promulgated in Dear Colleague Letters issued in 2011 and 2014. DeVos rightly noted that some colleges and universities have indelibly harmed survivors when their reports of sexual assault were “swept under the rug”. The Secretary rightly…