Next City

Title VI Is Broken. Here’s How Transit Leaders Can Fix It.

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Making public transportation systems more equitable requires ...
American Enterprise Institute

Let’s Work Together to Challenge the Selective Double Standard for the Enforcement of Title VI and Title IX in Higher Education

At the invitation of University of Chicago professor Dorian Abbot, I wrote the following essay for his Heterodox STEM Substack website, which was featured today on The College Fix — “New Heterodox ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Once a last resort, Title VI antisemitism complaints are now the ‘Wild West’ for Jews on campus

Federal civil rights investigations on behalf of Jewish students have grown exponentially since Oct. 7, and take little evidence to launch. (JTA) – When a Missouri school district recently received ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Says HHS Findings Prove Trump Admin Should Have Used Title VI Process Before Axing Grants

Hours after the Trump administration formally accused Harvard of violating federal civil rights law on Monday, the University filed a memo in court arguing that the administration failed to conduct a ...
American Enterprise Institute

An Update on My Efforts to Challenge Title VI and Title IX Violations in Higher Education Despite New Resistance from Biden’s Office for Civil Rights

Regular visitors to Carpe Diem know that for the last several years I have been on a one-man mission to challenge the frequent and brazen violations in higher education of Title IX’s prohibition of ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Dept. of Education opens Title VI antisemitism investigation at Sarah Lawrence College, where Hillel alleged atmosphere of intimidation

The federal Department of Education is opening a Title VI antisemitism investigation into Sarah Lawrence College in response to a complaint from the campus Hillel chapter that the school fostered a ...
ecampusnews.com

Integrating your college’s Title IX and Title VI policies and processes

As federal civil rights compliance grows increasingly complex, and as federal scrutiny intensifies, colleges and universities face mounting pressure to reevaluate their traditional approaches to ...
Reason

First Amendment Precludes Title VI Liability for Harsh Anti-Israel Speech at Art Institute of Chicago

A short excerpt from the long decision in Canel v. Art Institute of Chicago, decided yesterday by Judge Georgia Alexakis (N.D. Ill.): The events Canel describes in her second amended complaint—even ...
Grist

A new salvo in the fight to protect the ‘holy grail’ of environmental justice

In 1979, a woman named Margaret Bean decided to challenge the Texas state government’s decision to grant a permit for a new landfill in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston. The area was 70 ...
JD Supra

Title VI Coordinator Mandate for New York Colleges and Universities Signed into Law

As colleges and universities across New York welcome students back to campus this fall, New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed into law a new requirement for all New York higher education ...
The New York Times

Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges

Under Obama, federal rules pushed universities to build new bureaucracies to address sexual misconduct. Trump is doubling down on that tactic for antisemitism claims. By Jeremy W. Peters To show they ...