Friday, June 27, 2014

OCR in the Hot Seat

Article
Inside Higher Ed
Michael Statford
June 27, 2014

WASHINGTON -- Does the federal government need more power to go after colleges that mishandle sexual assault cases, or has it already overstepped its authority in telling colleges how to handle those cases?

That was a question raised Thursday by a pair of heated exchanges between a senior Department of Education official and the top two lawmakers on the Senate education committee during a Higher Education Act reauthorization hearing.

Full Story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/27/senators-debate-whether-us-has-enough-power-or-too-much-combat-campus-sexual-assault#sthash.sCyeC3D2.dpbs

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