"It's easy to get really paralyzed, but the headlines right now don't mean anything has happened," says William Guerrero, chief financial officer at the University of Bridgeport.
The Department is investigating two separate cases at the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State University involving the participation of a transgender woman on a women's athletic team.
Change to Title IX compliance can be daunting, but higher education leaders should ensure they are supported by engaging early and often with legal counsel.
Political, race-related and gender-related expression surrounding major national headlines has catalyzed a surge of sanction attempts from 2016 onward. Almost two-thirds of sanction attempts resulted in sanction, including 225 terminations.
