Education Secretary Betsy DeVos fired a shot last month in the nation's culture wars, overhauling how colleges handle investigations of sexual assault and ending what she called Obama-era "kangaroo courts" on campus.The new Education Department rules give more protections to the accused
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos fired a shot last month in the nation’s culture wars, overhauling how colleges handle investigations of sexual assault and ending what she called Obama-era “kangaroo courts” on campus.
“The new system is vastly better and fairer,” said Professor Janet Halley, who specializes in gender and sexuality at Harvard Law School. “The fact that we’re getting good things from the Trump administration is confusing, but isn’t it better than an unbroken avalanche of bad things?” The battle began in April 2011 when the Obama administration sent a letter to 4,600 colleges and universities, directing changes to Title IX, the 1973 law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. There was an urgent need to act: Recent decades had offered too many examples of college administrators and professors who shrugged off complaints of sexual violence as kids will be kids.
Supporting the Trump administration’s revamping of the rules comes laden with risk, as more than a few liberal critics accuse these feminists of having lost their way. Yet some of the strongest female voices in legal circles occupy this hill of dissent. The precise number of women assaulted on college campuses is itself a subject of debate. Advocates point to federal surveys suggesting that 1 in 5 female students have experienced assault while in college, which amounts to about 400,000 students. Even accounting for a likely high rate of underreporting, however, the Federal Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to report crimes on campuses, reported far fewer rapes, with 8,529 in 2018.
It was once vanishingly rare for students accused of sexual misconduct to challenge their universities. But for several years now, such students have filed lawsuits arguing lack of due process at a rate of twice a week, according to professor KC Johnson at Brooklyn College, a critic of Title IX regulations who monitors such legal challenges. And federal judges have found that regulations trampled on the constitutional rights of students.
Halley experienced her own epiphany on these questions years ago: She had a female colleague, she said, who lodged complaints against several male faculty members. Halley and other professors believed her at first before coming to doubt her allegations.
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