Education Dept.’s Penn Demands Show Shift in Title IX

Education Dept Launches Probe Into Foreign Donations at Penn

The Education Department says its investigating foreign donations at the University of Pennsylvania. “UPenn has a troubling Section 117 compliance history, having failed to disclose any foreign funding until February of 2019 despite a decades-long statutory obligation to do so,” Acting General Counsel Tom Wheeler said in a statement. “Although the previous Administration degraded the Department’s enforcement of universities’ legal obligations to…

Education Dept.’s Penn Demands Show Shift in Title IX

From the quick turnaround of the investigation to the nature of the demands, the Office for Civil Rights is showing a new approach to handling Title IX cases. Colleges should take note. The Department of Education’s demands that University of Pennsylvania “restore” swimming awards and honors that had been “misappropriated” to trans women athletes and apologize to the cisgender women who had lost to them offer a glimpse into how the second Trump …