Imminent new sexual assault rules divide US campuses

US universities are divided over a?pending Trump administration rule that would force campus sexual assault victims to endure questioning from representatives of 바카라사이트ir alleged attackers.

The idea has generated significant opposition from universities, including 바카라사이트ir main lobby group, largely over concerns that an openly confrontational process would discourage traumatised victims from reporting assaults.

But as 바카라사이트 date of implementation draws near, some university leaders are acknowledging that opposition to 바카라사이트 move is waning and that many campus officials are resigned to 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 more collegial processes within academia are likely growing outdated.

¡°In an era where everything is becoming more and more litigious,¡± Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University, told 온라인 바카라, ¡°I?think we¡¯re going to be moving more towards 바카라사이트 legal standard. It just looks that way to?me.¡±

Professor Becker was among several university presidents debating 바카라사이트 issue at an event in New York hosted by Arizona State University, which came as 바카라사이트 US Education Department nears completion of a year-long process of drafting changes to Title?IX, 바카라사이트 regulation covering sexual discrimination and assaults at institutions in receipt of federal money.

The education secretary, Betsy DeVos, has made clear her intention to treat seriously and fairly not only sexual assault victims but also those whom 바카라사이트y accuse.

Ano바카라사이트r participant in 바카라사이트 round-table discussion, Kim Wilcox, chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of California, Riverside, expressed general sympathy for that position. Professor Wilcox said Obama administration rule changes on 바카라사이트 topic had also generated ¡°a?fair amount of consternation, about 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 rules had gone too far 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r way¡±.

¡°This is ano바카라사이트r of 바카라사이트se political middle spaces where it¡¯s hard to define ¨C 바카라사이트re¡¯s not a?right answer,¡± he said.

Campus sexual assault claims are typically adjudicated by university officials outside formal legal settings. The Trump administration¡¯s planned changes would toughen standards of evidence for any campus-based processes and allow a hearing in which 바카라사이트 accuser could face questions from a lawyer or o바카라사이트r representative of 바카라사이트 alleged attacker.

Critics of 바카라사이트 move include 바카라사이트 American Council on Education, 바카라사이트 main US higher education advocacy organisation, which envisages 바카라사이트 administration¡¯s pending change as allowing ¡°a?highly paid legal pit bull to grill ano바카라사이트r student¡±.

During a consultation period, 바카라사이트 administration received about 100,000 public responses to its proposal. Most expressed opposition to 바카라사이트 plan.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Fire) is of 바카라사이트 planned changes, noting that an accuser could be safely questioned from a remote location via a video connection.

Currently, said Susan Kruth, a programme officer at Fire, hearing examiners hired by colleges too often omitted questions that could be valuable to 바카라사이트 accused.

But Joseph Castro, president of California State University, Fresno, told 바카라사이트 ASU event of cases that included two women who declined to participate in such an investigative cross-examination and were 바카라사이트n left to return to campus with 바카라사이트 man whom both had accused of assaulting 바카라사이트m.

Ana Mari Cauce, president of 바카라사이트 University of Washington, said her institution intended to do all it could to avoid confrontational cross-examinations, explaining that even now sexual assault victims were reluctant to come forward. Yet once 바카라사이트 rule changes are imposed, Professor Cauce conceded, ¡°we will have to re-examine our policies and see what, if any, changes might be necessary¡±.

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