{"id":600260,"date":"2021-07-22T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600260"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:06:30","slug":"college-students-finally-received-some-due-process-protections-but-the-biden-administration-wants-to-remove-them-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-students-finally-received-some-due-process-protections-but-the-biden-administration-wants-to-remove-them-report\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students Finally Received Some Due Process Protections, But The Biden Administration Wants To Remove Them: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-students-finally-received-some-due-process-protections-but-the-biden-administration-wants-to-remove-them-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1222371325.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s Title IX regulations, which were formally adopted last year, improved due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/report-new-title-ix-regulations-bolstered-due-process-at-colleges-but-lhamon-nomination-threatens-progress\/?utm_source=FIRE_Update&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Update&amp;fb_subscribed=true\">report<\/a> from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that the presumption of innocence \u201cis guaranteed at 90% of top universities in Title IX misconduct proceedings, but only at 62% of institutions for proceedings not governed by the regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other due process protections are threatened by President Joe Biden\u2019s nomination of Catherine Lhamon to return to her Obama-era position in the Education Department\u2019s Office for Civil Rights, which, during President Barack Obama\u2019s tenure, actively worked to eviscerate the civil rights of accused college students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were finally seeing student rights moving in the right direction, but Catherine Lhamon\u2019s nomination just shows how threatened the progress we\u2019ve made is,\u201d said FIRE Executive Director Robert Shibley in a statement. \u201cIf confirmed, Lhamon\u2019s history and rhetoric indicate that she will put her thumb on the scale of justice \u2014 ripping away fundamental rights and encouraging a patently unfair shadow justice system that deprives students of their right to due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FIRE examined the policies at 53 of the nation\u2019s top colleges to see how many of 10 \u201cfundamental procedural safeguards those institutions guarantee to students accused of violating college policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-three of the 53 universities examined \u201cdo not explicitly guarantee that students will be presumed innocent until proven guilty,\u201d FIRE found. This was despite improvements made during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite improvements, 44 of the 53 universities studied received a D or F grade for maintaining at least one system of policies that guaranteed no more than 4 of those 10 safeguards. This is a slight decrease from 49 institutions in FIRE\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/resources\/spotlight\/due-process-reports\/due-process-report-2019-2020\/\">previous report<\/a>,\u201d the organization noted.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, FIRE\u2019s report found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Nearly two-thirds (62.2%) of America\u2019s top 53 universities do not explicitly guarantee students that they will be presumed innocent until proven guilty. By contrast, more than 90% of rated universities\u2019 Title IX policies include a presumption of innocence, which,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/catherine-lhamon-still-believes-the-title-ix-regs-allow-students-to-rape-with-impunity\/\">contrary to Lhamon\u2019s assertion during her recent Senate confirmation hearing<\/a>, is explicitly required under the new regulations.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Three out of every four schools (75.4%) do not provide timely and adequate notice of the allegations to students accused of wrongdoing before expecting them to answer questions about the allegations. By contrast, less than one-fifth of schools (18.9%) have a Title IX policy that fails to provide such notice.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fewer than one out of every six schools (15%) guarantee a meaningful hearing, where each party may see and hear the evidence being presented to fact-finders by the opposing party, before a finding of responsibility. On the other hand, almost two-thirds of schools (64%) have a Title IX policy that guarantees a meaningful hearing.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lead author of the report, FIRE program officer Ryan Ansloan, said the report was \u201cproof that institutions will go to absurd lengths to abridge their students\u2019 rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese ratings represent the fates of real students who face suspension or expulsion without a fair process. No student should have to face a confusing, unwieldy campus judicial system with the deck already stacked against a fair process,\u201d Ansloan added.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s Title IX regulations, which were formally adopted last year, improved due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.A new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}