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Recently, Johns Hopkins University has come under fire from former graduate students who said they were forced out of their clinical mental health counseling program on the basis of race, mental health disability status, or both,...

In The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s, “She Took Her Oral Exams. 45 Years Later, She Filed Her Dissertation,” Professor Elisa Tamarkin shared a story about a student who wanted to file her dissertation after taking a...

In early May 2022, the Department of Education stated that modifications to the Trump administration’s Title IX rules on gender identity and campus sexual misconduct would be extended past the Biden deadline of April 2022....

College and university students and employees don’t give up their free speech, freedom of religion, and other liberty rights simply because they are on campus. Some students may seek so-called safe places where others cannot...

An Inside Higher Ed column acknowledges the trend in grade inflation across colleges and universities but argues that grade inflation is not necessarily a bad thing. The column’s author is a professor at a prestigious...

Free speech is already under attack and limited by speech codes on college and university campuses across the nation. One nonprofit spotlight on campus free speech tracks the alarming trend. Free speech advocates have been trying...

A nonprofit spotlight on campus free speech has warned for years that free speech on campus is on the decline and under attack. The First Amendment guarantees free speech against government action, and free speech is an especially...

With the return of the regular academic school year, schools in Jefferson County, Missouri, like schools across the United States, have increased the scope and intensity of their routine searches for vape devices on campus...

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...

Literally dozens of federal trial courts across the nation have found sex bias in the ways that schools at all levels, from high school through college to graduate programs, are disciplining innocent students for false Title IX...

Judicial decisions across the country continue to document sex bias in Title IX decisions. When schools charge students with Title IX sexual misconduct, the school has the statutory and regulatory obligation to treat the accused...

Effective July 1, 2022, Virginia fraternity and sorority members and potential members of such student organizations must complete hazing prevention training provided by colleges and universities. These new education and training...

In April of 2024, the Department of Education approved New Title IX rules, which are scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2024. Our firm is closely monitoring ongoing challenges to these new rules in court, and is working hard to...

Originally seen as a safer alternative to cigarettes, vaping continues to be controversial, especially for underage students. Some school districts are joining a national lawsuit against JUUL and Altria Group Inc (formerly Phillip...

Angela Bryant, a previously tenured sociology professor at Ohio State University, is fighting to get her job back after resigning during a mental-health crisis, according to a story reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education....

If you or a loved one is facing Title IX allegations at school, you probably already have your hands full with worries and concerns. The last thing you need is to add online harassment to your plate, but in this day and age,...

We’ve all heard stories of students cheating on an exam or assignment… but some stories are crazier than others. Here are four examples of wildly creative cheating that backfired on the students when they got caught. (Bear...

You know in movies where a character is convinced to streak across the football field during the Homecoming game, they get a slap on the wrist and scolded, but nothing more? Well, that’s not exactly the case in real life. In...

Let’s be clear right from the start, so there’s no question: no one should ever have to be a victim of sexual violence, and those who have been victimized deserve justice. That proposition, though, does not justify...

A recent article in the journal Common Sense suggests the American justice system may be in jeopardy. The problem, as Aaron Sibarium describes it, has to do with a growing “illiberal ideology.” What Sibarium means by this...