WSU joins Harvard Law as Subject of Investigation for Sex Abuse
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released today a list of the higher education institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in all education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. In the past, Department officials confirmed individual Title IX investigations at institutions, but today’s list is the first comprehensive look at which campuses are under review by OCR for possible violations of the law’s requirements around sexual violence…….
Under federal law, sexual violence refers to physical sexual acts perpetrated against a person’s will or where a person is incapable of giving consent — including rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual abuse and sexual coercion.
OCR’s mission is to ensure equal access to education and promote educational excellence throughout the nation through the vigorous enforcement of civil rights. OCR is responsible for enforcing federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination by educational institutions on the basis of disability, race, color, national origin, sex, and age, as well as the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act of 2001. Additional information about the office is available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html.
This list reflects investigations open as of May 1, 2014. Schools are listed alphabetically by state.
| State | Institution |
| AZ | Arizona State University |
| CA | Butte-Glen Community College District |
| CA | Occidental College |
CA |
University of California-Berkeley |
| CA | University of Southern California |
| CO | Regis University |
| CO | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| CO | University of Colorado at Denver |
| CO | University of Denver |
CT |
University of Connecticut |
| DC | Catholic University of America |
| FL | Florida State University |
| GA | Emory University |
| HI | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| ID | University of Idaho |
| IL | Knox College |
| IL | University of Chicago |
| IN | Indiana University-Bloomington |
| IN | Vincennes University |
| MA | Amherst College |
| MA | Boston University |
| MA | Emerson College |
| MA | Harvard College |
MA |
Harvard University—Law School |
| MA | University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| MD | Frostburg State University |
| MI | Michigan State University |
| MI | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| NC | Guilford College |
| NC | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ND | Minot State University |
| NH | Dartmouth College |
| NJ | Princeton University |
| NY | Cuny Hunter College |
| NY | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| NY | Sarah Lawrence College |
| NY | Suny at Binghamton |
| OH | Denison University |
| OH | Ohio State University |
| OH | Wittenberg University |
| OK | Oklahoma State University |
| PA | Carnegie Mellon University |
| PA | Franklin and Marshall College |
| PA | Pennsylvania State University |
| PA | Swarthmore College |
| PA | Temple University |
| TN | Vanderbilt University |
| TX | Southern Methodist University |
| TX | The University of Texas-Pan American |
| VA | College of William and Mary |
| VA | University of Virginia |
WA |
Washington State University ♥ |
| WI | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater |
| WV | Bethany College |
| WV | West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine |