For sexual assault crimes is that not the job of local law enforcement? Why this unconstitutional move by the Federal Government to overreach into local law? And you though Title IX just dealt with equality in sports. Notice that all the colleges are more of the "affluent" colleges.
The Education Department on Thursday took the unprecedented step
of releasing the names of the 55 colleges and universities currently facing a
Title IX investigation over their handling of sexual abuse complaints.
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The release came two days after a White House task force promised
greater government transparency on sexual assault in higher education. Going
forward, the department said, it will keep an updated list of schools facing
such an investigation and make it available upon request.
The schools range from big public universities such as Ohio State
University, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Michigan State
University to private schools like Knox College in Illinois, Swarthmore College
in Pennsylvania and Catholic University of America in the District of Columbia.
Ivy League schools like Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth are also on the list.
The agency previously would confirm such an investigation when
asked, but students and others were often unaware of them.
“We hope this increased transparency will spur community dialogue
about this important issue,” Catherine E. Lhamon, the department’s assistant
secretary for civil rights, said in a statement.
Lhamon said a school’s appearance on the list does not mean that
it has violated the law but that an investigation is ongoing.
Title IX prohibits gender discrimination at schools that receive
federal funds. It is the same law that guarantees girls equal access to sports,
but it also regulates institutions’ handling of sexual violence and
increasingly is being used by victims who say their schools failed to protect
them.
Citing research, the White House has said that 1 in 5 female
students is assaulted. President Barack Obama appointed a task force comprised
of his Cabinet members to review the issue after hearing complaints about the
poor treatment of campus rape victims and the hidden nature of such crimes.
The task force announced the creation of a website, notalone.gov,
offering resources for victims and information about past enforcement actions
on campuses. The task force also made a wide range of recommendations to
schools, such as identifying confidential victims’ advocates and conducting
surveys to better gauge the frequency of sexual assault on their campuses. Now how much did the website notalone.gov cost taxpayers?
The department publicized guidance on Title IX’s sexual assault
provisions in 2011, and complaints by students have since increased.
Complaints, however, don’t always lead to an investigation.
The department can withhold federal funding from a school that
doesn’t comply with the law, but it so far has not used that power and instead
has negotiated voluntary resolutions for violators.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,
have said non-compliance under the law is “far too common.” They say a lack of
federal resources is partly to blame for that, and they’ve sought more money to
ensure timely and proper investigations.
Another law that campus sexual assault cases fall under is the
Clery Act, which requires colleges and universities to report crime statistics
on or near their campuses. It also requires schools to develop prevention
policies and ensure victims their basic rights. Investigations under this law
are not included in the list that was released.
The list of schools under investigation as of May 1
State Institution
AZ Arizona State
University
CA Butte-Glen Community
College District
CA Occidental College
CA University of
California-Berkeley
CA University of
Southern California
CO Regis University
CO University of
Colorado at Boulder
CO University of
Colorado at Denver
CO University of Denver
CT University of
Connecticut
DC Catholic University
of America
FL Florida State
University
GA Emory University
HI University of
Hawaii at Manoa
ID University of Idaho
IL Knox College
IL University of
Chicago
IN Indiana
University-Bloomington
IN Vincennes
University
MA Amherst College
MA Boston University
MA Emerson College
MA Harvard College
MA Harvard
University—Law School
MA University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
MD Frostburg State University
MI Michigan State
University
MI University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor
NC Guilford College
NC University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
ND Minot State
University
NH Dartmouth College
NJ Princeton University
NY Cuny Hunter College
NY Hobart and William Smith
Colleges
NY Sarah Lawrence
College
NY Suny at Binghamton
OH Denison University
OH Ohio State University
OH Wittenberg University
OK Oklahoma State
University
PA Carnegie Mellon
University
PA Franklin and
Marshall College
PA Pennsylvania State
University
PA Swarthmore College
PA Temple University
TN Vanderbilt
University
TX Southern Methodist
University
TX The University of
Texas-Pan American
VA College of William
and Mary
VA University of
Virginia
WA Washington State
University
WI University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
WV Bethany College
WV West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
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