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If the tornadoes that ripped through central Illinois last month had to occur, they may have struck at an opportune time for Cook County. Cook County has natural disaster-preparation public meetings scheduled for next week, and more people may actually attend – just because they’ve had a good scare. “Nobody wants to wake up and…
For Pennsylvania’s flagship public university, a scandal’s cost continues to grow. Penn State University now says legal fees, consultants and fines associated with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have reached almost $52 million, pushing total known scandal expenses and lost revenue past $171 million. The new sum, which reflects the university’s cost as…
Penn State University has decided to keep confidential a preliminary report from the U.S. Department of Education based on the program review of the university’s compliance with the Clery Act in relation to allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The Clery Act is a 1990 federal law that requires universities to document all…
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors. A group of male and female students at Swarthmore filed a complaint with the…
WASHINGTON – The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center released on Tuesday guidelines on how K-12 schools, institutions of higher education (IHE) and houses of worship can develop high-quality emergency operations plans. “These guides align and build upon years of emergency planning work by the Federal government and are the first…
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA), which President Obama signed into law March 7, imposes new obligations on colleges and universities under its Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (SaVE Act) provision. ACE has prepared a brief memo that reviews these new obligations, which are effective March 7, 2014. The SaVE Act provision, which amends…
Yale University faces a fine of $165,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for “serious and numerous” Clery Act violations, including failing to report forcible sex offenses. Yale failed to report a total of four forcible sex offenses in its campus crime statistics for 2001 and 2002, according to an April 19 letter from Mary…
On March 7, 2013, President Obama signed a bill that strengthened and reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act. Included in the bill was the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE), which amends the Jeanne Clery Act and affords additional rights to campus victims of sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. Every post-secondary…