Category: Due Process
Schools:
George Washington University
George Washington University (GW) proposed a new sexual misconduct policy that lacked even basic provisions of procedural fairness. In a stunning and wholly appropriate blow to the university administration, GW’s faculty senate voted 15-0 to condemn a proposed sexual harassment code that virtually eliminated due process protections. The spirited discussion before the vote included references to FIRE and a resounding condemnation of Columbia University’s atrocious Sexual Misconduct Policy, which has now achieved the dubious distinction of demonstrating how serious charges should not be handled in a civilized community.
GW Faculty Senate Rejects Flawed Code
FIRE Letter to George Washington University
What Rights Will be Denied?
Due Process at the George Washington University
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, April 13, 2001
GW Proposed Sexual Harassment Code
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FIRE Letter to George Washington University
April 30, 2001
Dear Professors and Faculty Senators, The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education unites civil rights and civil liberties leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and journalists across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of liberty, academic freedom, legal equality, free speech, freedom of religion, and, in this case, due process and fundamental fairness on America’s college campuses. Our web page, www.thefire.org, will give you a fuller sense of our identity and activities. The faculty members of an institution of higher learning have a solemn obligation to pass along to the next generation a university at least as free, humane, and decent […]
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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, April 13, 2001
April 13, 2001
GW Faculty Senate Minutes Attached Files GW Faculty Senate Minutes, April 13, 2005, PDF, 2.2 MB , GW Faculty Senate Minutes
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