TRUMP SHOULD APPOINT K.C. JOHNSON OR ROBERT SHIBLEY TO REPLACE CATHERINE LHAMON AT THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Trump Administration Could Shake Up Campus Sex Wars.
Donald Trump’s stunning victory on Tuesday night has already sent shockwaves through colleges and universities, islands of cosmopolitan left-wing politics where the President-elect is hated and feared more than in perhaps any other sector of American life. And while it’s unlikely that the panicked and overwrought fears of the academic establishment will be vindicated, the Trump Administration—combined with unified Republican control of Congress—looks likely to strike a major blow against the heart of the campus Left’s agenda by rolling back federal support for the academic sex bureaucracy that has expanded dramatically during the Obama years. . . .
The Office for Civil Rights in Education is the agency responsible for controversially expanding federal power over campus sexual assault and harassment investigations, ordering colleges to reduce the burden of proof required for disciplinary action, and leaning on them to expand the definition of proscribed speech and behavior. Fearful of losing federal funding, colleges have ramped up the intensity of their sexual misconduct investigations and hired armies of consultants and Title IX coordinators to help them with the task, often at a real cost to the civil liberties of students and faculty.
And whoever’s handling Department of Education stuff for the transition needs to read Robert Shibley’s Twisting Title IX.
And, maybe, you know. . . .