Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs. One of our nation’s most famous — and sometimes most controversial — civil rights laws, Title IX was for many years best known for its impact on college women’s athletics. But the law has other important effects on campuses as well. For example, when it was passed, it explicitly banned most forms of sex discrimination in college admissions. Importantly, Title IX also requires colleges and universities that receive federal funding (virtually all of them, since federal funding includes things like Stafford Loans for students) to prohibit sexual harassment on campus.
Unfortunately, in recent years, the government’s efforts to fight sexual harassment on campus in the name of Title IX have sometimes overstepped the bounds of the law and the Constitution.
Unfortunately, in recent years, the government’s efforts to fight discrimination on campus in the name of Title IX have sometimes overstepped the bounds of the Constitution. ݮƵAPP has fought for your rights for more than 20 years and secured many victories along the way.
There was no due process or hearing. The university’s administrators were more concerned about protecting the faculty than adhering to their own rules and addressing bad behavior. They basically tried to destroy my career beyond all comprehension.
Rebecca Bryant Novak was warned to stay quiet. She didn’t. After she blew the whistle on a faculty member’s harassment, a panel of faculty and administrators confirmed both the harassment and Eastman’s failure to respond appropriately. But the school didn’t protect her. It retaliated.
"Unfortunately, Title IX has really become unmoor...
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When Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis published “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe” in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2015, she didn’t expect she’d become the target of a Title IX investigation as a result.
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