Five years into a federal review of how it handles sexual assault, Ohio State University is still trying to get it right.
The Education Department announced in 2010 that, under the gender-equity law known as Title IX, it was opening a compliance review of all of Ohio State’s policies and procedures related to sexual harassment and assault, allegations of which had swirled around its marching band.
Over the next four years, investigators from the department’s Office for Civil Rights made several visits to the campus, and Ohio State turned over thousands of pages of documents. Last September university and federal officials reached aresolution agreement that lays out 100 separate steps the institution must take to comply with Title IX, including about a dozen requirements of its Title IX coordinator.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Under-Investigation/232205