Last week, the Biden administration announced its intention to rescind changes made by President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy Devos to Title IX regulations governing campus sexual assault.
In an about-face from Obama-era regulations, Devos ordered that colleges should afford students accused of sexual assault the right to due process — the right to examine the evidence against them and to cross-examine their accuser.
Though still undefined, the Biden policy appears to be heading toward a negation of Devos’s changes and a resumption of Obama-era regulations that critics say railroaded hundreds of accused students by depriving them of those time-tested rights.
Doug McKelway interviews author and Brooklyn College professor K.C. Johnson, who has written extensively about Title IX and the campus sexual assault phenomenon and what he calls a “moral panic” of injustice on America’s college campuses.
