Monday, December 13, 2010

Education Dept. Tells 2 Colleges to Revamp Sexual-Harassment Policies

The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 10, 2010

By Elyse Ashburn
Eastern Michigan University, which paid the largest fine ever imposed for violating laws on campus-crime reporting, also must revamp its sexual-harassment policies under an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
The department's investigation of whether the university was in compliance with Title IX, a 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal funds, stems from the rape and murder of a female student on the university's campus in 2006.

Full Story: http://chronicle.com/article/Education-Dept-Tells-2/125704/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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