Feds Release List Of 55 Colleges Facing Federal Sexual Assault Investigations, And It’s About Time
Today the Department of Education released a list of dozens of universities that are facing Title IX sexual assault investigations. Title IX is the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools that receive federal funding ”” including in their athletics programs. It’s about time these universities are taken to task for their inability to take sexual assault cases seriously.
This week, a task force convened by President Obama met to figure out a way to curb campus sexual assault. One of the things the task force decided was to create greater transparency in their Title IX investigative process. If colleges were adept at handling campus assault we probably wouldn’t need this list, would we?
For example, Florida State’s star athlete Jameis Winston just won a Heisman trophy, a month after state prosecutors revealed that they would not press charges stemming from a rape allegation. FSU never even held a disciplinary hearing to deal with the allegations. Universities that don’t take allegations seriously or that place the careers of athletes over the safety and well-being of their students are the reason a list like this needs to exist.
Yesterday, The White House also released a PSA starring Steve Carrel, Daniel Craig and others as part of their campaign to curb sexual assault.
Here is the full list. It will be updated as new investigations start and others are closed.
Arizona
Arizona State University
Calilfornia
Butte-Glen Community College District
Occidental College
University of California-Berkeley
University of Southern California
Colorado
Regis University
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Denver
University of Denver
Connecticut
University of Connecticut
District of Columbia
Catholic University of America
Florida
Florida State University
Georgia
Emory University
Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Idaho
University of Idaho
Illinois
Knox College
University of Chicago
Indiana
Indiana University-Bloomington
Vincennes University
Maryland
Frostburg State University
Massachusetts
Amherst College
Boston University
Emerson College
Harvard College
Harvard University””Law School
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Michigan
Michigan State University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
New Hampshire
Dartmouth College
New Jersey
Princeton University
New York
Cuny Hunter College
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Sarah Lawrence College
Suny at Binghamton
North Carolina
Guilford College
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Dakota
Minot State University
Ohio
Denison University
Ohio State University
Wittenberg University
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University
Franklin and Marshall College
Pennsylvania State University
Swarthmore College
Temple University
Tennessee
Vanderbilt University
Texas
Southern Methodist University
The University of Texas-Pan American
Virginia
College of William and Mary
University of Virginia
Washington
Washington State University
West Virginia
Bethany College
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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