Betsy DeVos improves campus sexual misconduct rules. But why are colleges handling them anyway?

Published November 18, 2018 5:33pm ET



The Department of Education’s proposed Title IX regulations on campus sexual assault and harassment are a great improvement on Obama-era guidelines. Most importantly, the proposed new rules bolster due process protections in campus proceedings.

But the main lesson of recent years’ stories on campus sexual assault cases isn’t simply that the current rules are at fault. It’s that universities simply cannot adequately adjudicate these cases.

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