Texas Senate Bill 212 relating to Title IX, the 1972 federal statute on sex discrimination and sexual harassment, enhances reporting requirements for Title IX violations.    Considered one of the tightest campus safety measures in the nation by...

The U.S. Department of Justice awarded UTEP a grant to help the university respond to sexual assaults and other violent crimes affecting college students on and off campus. In a press release on Wednesday, Aug. 29, the justice department’s Office of...

The Trump administration has officially rescinded Obama-era Title IX rules that dealt with sexual assaults on campus grounds on Friday, September 22. The controversial new directions come in a Q&A format. Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education,...

Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that the Department of Education would revoke the Obama-era regulations around sexual assault found in Title IX, and pivot from protecting the victims to protecting the accused. “The truth is...

The number of sexual assaults reported on college campuses is rising. But officials and advocates agree that the increase means more students are coming forward, not a growing number of assaults. Amid a national conversation about sexual assault prevention...

WASHINGTON – One university athletic department is the richest in the nation, while the other, a school spokesman said, is struggling to pay its light bill. The University of Texas and Vanderbilt University have little in common in the college sports...

When Monica Lopez, senior kinesiology major and a member of the track team, practices on the track, she does so without the fear of persecution. She doesn’t have to worry about jumping the chain link metal fence that surrounds the track with the shadow...

WASHINGTON - Title IX is about more than giving women a fair shot on the playing field – it’s about making sure the environment is safe and equal off of it as well. But when it comes to enforcing Title IX, the law forbidding gender discrimination...