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Rethinking Discipline within Title IX For many schools, student discipline, particularly in the Title IX context, is necessarily structured, formal and punitive. Investigations are governed by federal regulations, institutional policy and due ...

After President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) changed its policies the next day about the inclusion of transgender athletes in ...

2024 was an exciting year for all things Title IX, and 2025 is already following suit. On January 9, 2025, the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated the 2024 Title IX regulations nationwide. The court held that the ...

This article was originally published in the Pennsylvania Title IX Professional’s PaTIXPros June 2024 newsletter. To live hearing or not to live hearing? That is the question. Since August 2020, the Title IX regulations have mandated live ...

What do the new Title IX regulations and the new Taylor Swift album have in common? They both dropped on April 19, 2024, after many fortnights of anticipation. Since 2022, the Title IX world has been waiting for the Department of Education (ED) to ...

A good Title IX advisor can mean the difference between a party feeling informed and supported or confused and overwhelmed. Title IX coordinators and institutions should prioritize choosing, cultivating, and retaining advisors. Federal regulations ...

The Washington Post recently reported that new proposed Title IX language referencing transgender students should be expected from the Department of Education (the Department) this month. The reported proposed regulations will include this ...

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided what constitutes actual notice of sexual harassment in Title IX cases. A school has actual knowledge, also referred to as actual notice, when a report is made to any school official, regardless of ...

Less than 50 days into his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order on March 8, 2021, directing the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a review of the controversial Title IX regulations (the Rules) that were spearheaded by ...

Despite 18 attorneys general, including Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, DC, vigorously challenging the substance of the new Title IX Regulations (the Final Rule) and its August 14 effective date by filing a Motion for Preliminary ...