Over the past year and a half, the number of colleges finding themselves in the cross hairs of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over their handling of sexual-assault cases has nearly tripled, to 161.
Being put on the list is just the start of a painstakingly detailed back-and-forth that takes, on average, more than a year to resolve.
How colleges end up on the list, how long they will remain there, and on what points they will be found in or out of compliance with the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX remain a mystery to most college officials.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/As-Federal-Sex-Assault/234858