First Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Student’s Claim Against Stonehill College’s Unfair Campus Court and for Ignoring Its Title IX Policies

Right before Christmas 2022, the First Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a case by a student at Stonehill College, a small school of less than 2,500 students in Easton, Massachusetts who had sued after being expelled by a Title IX campus court. The First Circuit reversed the decision of the…
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Coming Soon to a Campus Near You: The Human Resource Office Will Begin an Unending Investigation for the Sake of Investigation

I. The Tyranny of the Campus HR Department At Allen Harris, we are seeing an increasing trend that attacks faculty rights on campus. Colleges and universities are ceding supervision of faculty to their human resource departments. It is a growing trend that students and colleagues routinely weaponize petty grievances to…
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Survey suggests college students think some speech might warrant violent reactions – even the death penalty

A disturbing new survey released late last month, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale, found that college students were surprisingly willing to say that violence might be an appropriate reaction to “hateful” views. Worse, responses to one of the questions suggest that…
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Boo! This Halloween, beware of ghosts, offensive costumes … and college administrators

As college students prepare for Halloween parties, college administrators send out predictable warnings about the importance of not offending anyone with a Halloween costume. Whitman College, for example, cautions against anything that might “trivialize human suffering or oppression” – like a prisoner costume. The University of Nebraska and the University…
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Massachusetts Private High School Forced to Recognize Student’s Rights in Title IX Case

A Massachusetts family recently scored a huge win for students against the Governor’s Academy (formerly known as the Governor Dummer Academy), a private New England high school, for breach of contract and violation of Title IX. Lawsuits against private high schools are notoriously difficult. Private high schools can expel students…
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Samantha Harris Quoted in USA Today Article: Biden Administration Proposes Protections for Transgender Students and Against Sexual Violence in Schools

June 23, 2022 President Joe Biden's administration released a proposal Thursday that would provide stronger protections against sex and gender discrimination on college campuses, as well as for anyone who claims they were the victim of sexual assault on campus. The changes seek to overhaul a federal rule known as…
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Samantha Harris Featured in The Wall Street Journal: Princeton President Asks Board to Fire Tenured Classics Professor, Citing Sexual-Misconduct Investigation

May 19, 2022 Princeton University’s president has recommended that the school’s board of trustees fire a tenured classics professor, concluding he didn’t cooperate fully in a sexual-misconduct investigation, according to a copy of his letter to the board’s chair reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The recommended dismissal is being…
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Samantha Harris Quoted in NYT Article: After Campus Uproar, Princeton Proposes to Fire Tenured Professor

May 20, 2022 In July 2020, as social justice protests roiled the nation, Joshua Katz, a Princeton classics professor, wrote in a small influential journal that some faculty proposals to combat racism at Princeton would foment “civil war on campus,” and denounced a student group, the Black Justice League, as…
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Famed New England Prep School Not Above the Law in Disciplinary Action Against Former Student, Judge Rules

Decision allows case to proceed against the Frederick Gunn School for expelling student who cursed at his football coach after benching and berating him during final game LITCHFIELD, Conn., February 16, 2022 --- In a ruling exposing the lack of due process at one of the country’s elite private schools,…
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UNT Professor Timothy Jackson Wins Preliminary Battle in the Courts

Professor Timothy Jackson of the University of North Texas (UNT), who was wrongfully accused of being a racist for defending music theorist Heinrich Schenker, recently won a preliminary battle in the courts, as District Judge Amos L. Mazzant decisively rejected UNT’s request for a summary dismissal of Jackson’s defamation lawsuit…
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