Child sex trafficking isn't the first thing most people think of when they consider sexual harassment and assault in higher education. But it's more common than you may think. And perpetrators are almost all white, male academics, according to a…
Probably the most important book in 2021 related to Title IX looks at how we get to sexual justice both for survivors of sexual assault and for the people accused of assaulting them. This Tuesday, August 24, at 7:30 p.m…
We're at a pivotal moment in Title IX history. Not since 1975 has the Department of Education changed the regulations governing Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in education. The Trump Administration now is going all-out to see…
It looks like a coalition of advocates for Title IX may get to take the Trump Administration to court. (Video: Lawyers and a student survivor of sexual assault explain their case at a press conference.) A federal magistrate judge at…
When I read complaints that Title IX enforcement goes too far in dealing with sexual assault on campus, I think of football. Not because this topic is a political football being tossed around in the court of public opinion, though…
Title IX issues that start in colleges and universities inevitably make their way to K-12 schools, opening society's eyes to the pervasiveness of the problem at all ages. A year-long investigation by Associated Press reporters provides the latest example -- a…
The media and anti-Title IX pundits are fond of framing controversies around campus sexual assaults as a relatively "new" phenomenon that started in 2011. Too often that leaves out the 45-year history of schools and colleges unfairly ignoring, obstinately defying, and only reluctantly complying…
A nearly 13-hour sit-in by female students and their supporters at the University of California, Santa Barbara produced promises of change from the administration, providing an example of how far we've come and how far we've yet to go under Title…
What do Title IX, the comedian Betsy Salkind, and the new film The Hunting Ground have in common? A historical thread that's about to change one sorry aspect of U.S. society. Finally. I hope. The Hunting Ground opens in cities across…
(Video: Title IX expert Bernice Sandler on why words matter.) We swim in a sea of cultural assumptions. Norms surround us like the air we breathe, scarcely noticeable until we find them toxic, and then hard to explain to someone…