U.S. lists 55 colleges under investigation for Title IX sexual assault case violations
Obama administration released the list of 55 colleges being investigated for possible violations of Title IX over handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints.
Under pressure from some victims’ advocates and lawmakers, the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday published a comprehensive list of the colleges and universities the agency is investigating for how they handle sexual harassment and assault complaints.
The department took the unprecedented step of publicly naming all 55 institutions that investigators are probing to see whether their approach to sexual assault and harassment complies with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which requires gender equity in education.
The list is as follows:
Arizona
- Arizona State University (opened Jan. 26, 2012)
California
- Butte-Glenn Community College District (opened Feb. 27, 2013)
- Occidental College (opened May 2, 2013)
- University of California-Berkley (opened March 25, 2014)
- University of Southern California (opened June 26, 2013)
Colorado
- Regis University (opened April 30, 2013)
- University of Colorado at Boulder (opened June 18, 2013)
- University of Colorado at Denver (opened April 29, 2014)
- University of Denver (opened Dec. 12, 2013)
- University of Connecticut (opened Dec. 6, 2013)
District of Columbia
- Catholic University of America (opened Jan. 8, 2014)
Florida
- Florida State University (opened April 3, 2014)
Georgia
- Emory University (opened Dec. 13, 2013)
Hawaii
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (opened May 28, 2013)
Idaho
- University of Idaho (opened April 18, 2013)
Illinois
- Knox College (opened Jan. 1, 2014)
Illinois
- University of Chicago (opened June 28, 2013)
Indiana
- Indiana University-Bloomington (March 12, 2014)
- Vincennes University (March 20, 2014)
Massachusetts
- Amherst College (opened Jan. 1, 2014)
- Boston University (opened Dec. 16, 2013)
- Emerson College (opened Dec. 23, 2013)
- Harvard College (opened Dec. 24, 2014)
- Harvard Law School (opened Dec. 21, 2010)
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst (opened June 30, 2011)
Maryland
- Frostburg State University (opened Sept. 18, 2013)
Michigan
- Michigan State University (first case opened July 21, 2011; second case opened Feb. 18, 2014)
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (opened Feb. 21, 2014)
North Carolina
- Guiliford College (opened Nov. 18, 2013)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (opened March 1, 2013)
North Dakota
- Minot State University (opened Feb. 26, 2014)
New Hampshire
- Dartmouth College (opened May 31, 2013)
New Jersey
- Princeton University (opened Dec. 15, 2010)
New York
- CUNY Hunter College (opened Feb. 8, 2013)
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (opened April 24, 2014)
- Sarah Lawrence College (opened Dec. 4, 2013)
- State University of New York at Binghamton (opened Dec. 31, 2013)
Ohio
- Denison University (opened March 7, 2014)
- Ohio State University (opened June 23, 2010)
- Wittenberg University (first case opened Aug. 25, 2011; second case opened April 18, 2013)
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State University (opened April 10, 2014)
Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University (opened Jan. 13, 2014)
- Franklin and Marshall College (opened March 26, 2014)
- Pennsylvania State University (opened Jan. 23, 2014)
- Swarthmore College (opened July 12, 2013)
- Temple University (opened Aug. 9, 2013)
Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University (opened March 12, 2014)
Texas
- Southern Methodist University (first case opened Aug. 17, 2011; second case opened April 19, 2013; third case opened April 19, 2013)
- The University of Texas-Pan American (opened April 21, 2014)
Virginia
- College of William and Mary (opened April 18, 2014)
- University of Virginia (opened June 30, 2011)
Washington
- Washington State University (opened Jan. 15, 2013)
Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (opened Feb. 14, 2014)
West Virginia
- Bethany College (opened April 28, 2014)
- West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (opened March 25, 2013)
U.S. names colleges under investigation for sexual assault cases (Inside Higher Ed | News)