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Title IX Misconduct Can Terminate Your College Scholarship Awards

Posted by Joseph D. Lento | Jan 12, 2023 | 0 Comments

Federal Obligations Encourage Punishment

Title IX sexual misconduct allegations are a serious matter for any college or university student facing them. Federal Title IX regulations require schools receiving federal funding to prohibit and punish certain forms of sexual misconduct. Schools must take those federal obligations seriously. The federal Office of Civil Rights vigorously enforces school Title IX obligations to the point that schools can even lose their federal funding. One way that colleges and universities prove to federal investigators and other constituents that they are fulfilling their Title IX obligations is to severely punish students alleged to have committed Title IX sexual misconduct. Because of regulatory and public pressure, schools can, unfortunately, rush to judgment against students accused of Title IX misconduct.

Title IX Punishment Includes Loss of Financial Awards

When colleges and universities punish students for alleged Title IX sexual misconduct, the punishment can involve the loss of scholarships, grants, other financial awards, and even access to student loan proceeds. Schools nationwide maintain Title IX policies like those at Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Those policies routinely authorize school disciplinary officials to impose not just reprimands, remedial education, and restricted privileges but also school suspensions and expulsions. When a college or university bars a student from enrolling for a period due to Title IX disciplinary suspension or dismisses the student from the school for Title IX violations, the student will lose scholarships that depend on enrollment in school courses and programs. The student will also lose grants, other financial awards, and student loans that depend on school enrollment. While you can generally apply for scholarships, grants, loans, and other financial awards before enrollment, grantors tend to send the cash proceeds to the applicant's school. And even if a grantor offers cash directly to the student, those awards typically depend on maintaining good standing at the school.

Defending Title IX Allegations

In short, Title IX sexual misconduct findings can cause you to lose your scholarship and other financial awards relating to the school. But just because your college or university has charged you with Title IX sexual misconduct does not mean that the school will find that you violated Title IX prohibitions, causing you to lose scholarships and other awards. You may be able to successfully defend Title IX charges with skilled and experienced attorney representation. Title IX regulations require your college or university to offer you protective procedures that your retained Title IX defense attorney can help you strategically invoke your best possible outcome to Title IX charges. Title IX charges don't necessarily mean Title IX violations and financial losses if you take the right approach by hiring a skilled and experienced Title IX defense attorney advisor.

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Joseph D. Lento

"I pride myself on having heart and driving hard to get results!" Attorney Joseph D. Lento passionately fights for the futures of his clients nationwide. Attorney Lento and his team represent students and others in disciplinary cases and various other proceedings at colleges and universities across the United States. Attorney Lento has helped countless students, professors, and others in academia at more than a thousand colleges and universities across the United States, and when necessary, he and his team have sought justice on behalf of clients in courts across the nation. He does not settle for the easiest outcome, and instead prioritizes his clients' needs and well-being. In various capacities, the Lento Law FIrm Team can help you or your student address any school-related issue or concern anywhere in the United States.

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