The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Ticker
May 5, 2011, 5:20 pm
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has told the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights that the agency failed to acknowledge students’ First Amendment rights in its April 4 “Dear Colleague” letter offering guidelines for colleges and schools dealing with allegations of sexual assault.
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/free-speech-group-voices-concerns-over-education-dept-s-letter-on-sexual-assault/32789
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Bethune-Cookman Defends Dismissals of Professors Accused of Sexual Misconduct
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim , October 27, 2010
Dr. Clanton Dawson, professor of religion and philosophy at Bethune-Cookman University, was in the middle of giving a lecture in the school’s Mary McLeod Bethune Fine Arts building more than a year ago when a student suddenly broke down and started crying.
“I go to her. I ask if she’s OK,” Dawson recalled during an interview Tuesday. “She said ‘yeah,’ but asked to speak with me after class.”
The conversation that Dawson says followed that fateful day is one of several that set off a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the controversial dismissal in spring 2009 of four faculty members who allegedly coerced female students into trading sex for grades.
Full Story: http://diverseeducation.com/article/14328/
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim , October 27, 2010
Dr. Clanton Dawson, professor of religion and philosophy at Bethune-Cookman University, was in the middle of giving a lecture in the school’s Mary McLeod Bethune Fine Arts building more than a year ago when a student suddenly broke down and started crying.
“I go to her. I ask if she’s OK,” Dawson recalled during an interview Tuesday. “She said ‘yeah,’ but asked to speak with me after class.”
The conversation that Dawson says followed that fateful day is one of several that set off a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the controversial dismissal in spring 2009 of four faculty members who allegedly coerced female students into trading sex for grades.
Full Story: http://diverseeducation.com/article/14328/
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