It could be very easy to lose sight of so many other
important educational issues due to media coverage and political climate. There
are still many other ongoing issues in education that will affect the safety of
our students as well. For example:
“U.S. Will Investigate Title IX
Complaint at Swarthmore”
“Swarthmore College will be the
latest to face an investigation by the U.S. Education Department’s Office for
Civil Rights for possible violations of federal law, OCR announced Friday.
Students complaints filed under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
and the Clery Act allege that administrators mishandled cases of sexual
assault, underreported statistics, and retaliated against students, the Huffington Post reported. On Monday, students who
helped prompt recent complaints at Swarthmore and other campuses nationwide
rallied outside the department’s offices in Washington, urging OCR and
Education Secretary Arne Duncan to better enforce Title IX”.
Also in the news:
“Enforcement for the Enforcers”
“WASHINGTON – Annie Clark, a recent college graduate whose
activism has helped spur an unprecedented movement to expose sexual assault on college
campuses, got a pretty unforgettable present for her birthday this year”.
“There were only a few dozen students rallying alongside Clark
outside the U.S. Education Department here on Monday, but their shouts – which,
for the first time in a long time, felt celebratory – were loud enough to lure
Under Secretary Martha Kanter from the department’s concrete fortress”.
Read the rest: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/16/sexual-assault-activists-protest-level-federal-title-ix-enforcement
Student safety is still paramount, and this is within our control
to fix!
Dr Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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