Proposed Title IX regulations would roll back essential free speech, due process protections for college students

a-man-from-earth · 2022-06-24T00:48:17+00:00

And... here we go again! The Biden administration intends to roll back legal protections for students accused under Title IX.

Unlike the current regulations, adopted in 2020 after 18 months of review, the new regulations would roll back student rights by:

eliminating students’ right to a live hearing;

eliminating the right to cross-examination;

weakening students’ right to active legal representation;

allowing a single campus bureaucrat to serve as judge and jury;

rejecting the Supreme Court’s definition of sexual harassment in favor of a definition that threatens free speech rights;

requiring colleges and universities to use the weak “preponderance of the evidence” standard to determine guilt, unless they use a higher standard for other alleged misconduct.

These changes authorize or require institutions to violate fundamental student and faculty civil liberties.

[...]

The “Dear Colleague” era led to more than 600 lawsuits — many successful — against colleges for conducting allegedly unfair disciplinary processes. What’s more, a 2019 study of top schools conducted by FIRE found that college students were routinely denied even the most basic elements of a fair hearing. More than two-thirds of colleges surveyed did not even explicitly guarantee students that they would be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

(emphasis mine)

CriticalConvo · 2022-06-24T01:02:13+00:00

It works both ways tho

OldEgalitarianMRA · 2022-06-24T02:00:06+00:00

The original press release from FIRE.

https://www.thefire.org/proposed-title-ix-regulations-would-roll-back-essential-free-speech-due-process-protections-for-college-students/

63daddy · 2022-06-24T02:13:10+00:00

An incredibly biased system made even more biased. They might as well just suspend the kangaroo courts and simply proclaim all accused college men guilty.

Title	Proposed Title IX regulations would roll back essential free speech, due process protections for college students
Author	a-man-from-earth
Upvotes	2
Comments	9
Date	June 24, 2022 12:47 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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