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When a university allows you to use its motor vehicle, you surely do your best to avoid causing an accident. Who wants to be in an accident, anyway? Accidents sometimes just happen, though. When your accident involves a university...

If you’re a college student, you need to know about Title IX. Why? First, anyone can find themselves accused at any time. Second, it’s no easy matter to defend yourself from such an accusation; you have to be prepared...

A University of Missouri student is now blind and unable to walk after he was allegedly forced to consume an excessive quantity of alcohol during a pledge event for the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Hazing Ritual Turns To Tragedy...

Recently, the Board of Regents at the University of Georgia voted to change the school’s free speech policies. Why? In May of 2022, Georgia’s governor — Brian Kemp — signed the Forming Open and Robust University...

College roommates can be a blessing and a curse. Get a good one and you have a live-in study buddy and confidant who can accompany you on all sorts of adventures – but get a bad one and you can end up with a seemingly endless...

If you’re the victim of unwarranted discipline, it can be tempting to unleash your emotions on the school that has wronged you. Please, don’t resort to a social media savaging of the liable party—we may still be able...

Ideally, colleges and universities would enforce their policies in a consistent manner. Unfortunately, they can sometimes use policies and regulations to target individuals. If you’re a student or employee and your...

Schools should be a safe place for students, but as we all know, they often aren’t. When something bad happens to a student at school, students and parents should be able to sue the school if that school contributed to the...

The Colorado Court of Appeals recently weighed in on a private university’s obligation to students who are defending sexual misconduct claims made against them. The decision is a win for students and will hopefully change...

The term “burden of proof” refers to the responsibility of proving an incident did or did not occur. In the context of a sexual misconduct case being charged in criminal court, the state prosecutor has the burden of proving...

Nearly a decade ago, an undergraduate student at Harvard was accused of sexual assault. After investigations, he was ultimately denied his degree. Now, all these years later, the issue of whether the student’s undergraduate...

If you’re struggling with challenges or crises and need to talk to someone, you can. Text ‘HOME’ to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK. Navigating the...

Do the Department of Education’s new rule changes to Title IX serve to broaden civil rights among students in universities? Many experts argue the answer to this question is a resounding “No.” Not only do these experts...

Title IX law is in constant flux, with new rules and legal challenges continuing to shape how schools, colleges, and other institutions handle sex-based misconduct and discrimination.  Our firm closely monitors these...

A recent episode of The Key, a podcast by Inside Higher Ed, highlighted the national conversation around holding transcripts in an attempt to collect student loan payments. If you weren’t familiar with the practice, it is...

There have been a lot of recent complaints about how Title IX guidelines have become so legalistic they have created a “College Quasi Court.” It’s true, they have. Guess what? A healthy dose of legalism is precisely what...

Title IX law is in constant flux, with new rules and legal challenges continuing to shape how schools, colleges, and other institutions handle sex-based misconduct and discrimination.  Our firm closely monitors these...

Violence against women on college campuses is not OK. No one should have to be a victim of sexual assault, and those who have suffered deserve justice. Our desire to give victims justice, however, shouldn’t be allowed to...

Title IX law is in constant flux, with new rules and legal challenges continuing to shape how schools, colleges, and other institutions handle sex-based misconduct and discrimination.  Our firm closely monitors these...

It sounds like a movie: your jealous roommate or lab partner has sabotaged you in some way, getting you in trouble in medical school. Maybe they stole your lab paper or accused you of cheating on an assignment, either way,...