Title IX Archives - Public Seminar

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A Lot of Things Are Broken

Why focusing on sex won’t fix sexual harassment

January 31, 2018 • by Claire Potter

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost later this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

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When Title IX Hits Home

Addressing Our Troubles

December 20, 2017 • by Andrew Arato

As I see it, there are two dimensions of the problem and they should be separated. First, as it is clear now, problems of harassment, as well as apparently improper intimate relationships have existed at the New School as well as other institutions of higher learning. How bad the problems ...

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Title IX Investigations and Sexual Harassment at The New School

A letter from the editors of Public Seminar

December 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Claire Potter

A faculty member has resigned from The New School for Social Research prior to the conclusion of a Title IX investigation. We have received inquiries from faculty and students who wish to publish at Public Seminar responses and reflections about sexual harassment at our own university. This is new territory for us as ...

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Don’t Roll Back Title IX Enforcement

The Past and Future of Campus Sexual Assault Policy

July 28, 2017 • by Haylee Millikan

The recent Title IX Listening Sessions of July 13 2017 sponsored by U. S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have prompted this week’s forum at Public Seminar. As part of the process, Secretary DeVos also hosted men’s rights activists who champion the cause of individuals claiming to be falsely ...