Oklahoma Wesleyan University
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Website: https://www.okwu.edu/
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Federal Circuit: 1st Circuit
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Oklahoma Wesleyan: Why We’re Suing the Obama Administration Over Title IX
September 6, 2016
By Everett Piper at Heatstreet Two years ago this month, President Obama spoke about how lives are “suddenly shattered by an act of sexual violence” and how “the trauma, the terror can shadow you long after one horrible attack.”… Read more here.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan Challenges Unconstitutional Ruling
September 1, 2016
By Staff at Tulsa Beacon (PRNewswire) – Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU) became the first and only institution of higher education to challenge in court a 2011 mandate from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that colleges and universities adjudicate using a unconstitutional process and standard… Read more here.
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Christian College Sues the Feds to Protect Women’s Privacy and Due Process, President Says
August 19, 2016
By Peter Maxwell at The College Fix Everett Piper has a much bigger agenda than simply stopping the federal government from telling his evangelical university how it must investigate rape allegations… Read more here.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan University Sues Obama Over Sexual Assault Cases Directive
August 18, 2016
By Michael Gryboski at Christian Post Oklahoma Wesleyan University recently agreed to join a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over campus sexual assault case standards, arguing that they violate student rights to due process… Read more here.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Over Federal Mandate on Sexual Harassment Cases
August 17, 2016
By Bill Sherman at Tulsa World Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville this week joined a lawsuit challenging a 2011 federal mandate governing how universities handle sexual harassment cases… Read more here.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan University Joins Lawsuit Over ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
August 16, 2016
By Staff at News on 6 Oklahoma Wesleyan University became the first college or university to go to court to challenge the Obama Administration over its so-called “Dear Colleague” sexual assault letter… Read more here.
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OKWU Joins Suit Challenging Sexual Assault Reporting Requirements
August 16, 2016
By Chris Day at Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise Oklahoma Wesleyan University has joined a lawsuit that alleges the U.S. Department of Education’s “preponderance of evidence” standard in deciding sexual assault cases creates new law and violates student rights… Read more here.
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Christian College Sues Obama Admin Over Sexual Assault Policy
August 16, 2016
By Raven Clabough at The New American Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU), a Christian college, is the first university to join a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its five-year-old policy mandating how schools address allegations of sexual assault. The suit contends that the standards set by the Obama administration fail to protect innocent students, violate the Administrative Procedure Act, and amount to male gender bias… Read more here.
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University Challenges Obama Administration’s Title IX Guidance
August 16, 2016
By Michael Stratford at Politico UNIVERSITY TAKES ON OBAMA CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT GUIDANCE: Oklahoma Wesleyan University, an evangelical school, on Monday signed on to a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Obama administration’s 2011 guidance instructing colleges on how they must handle sexual assault cases under Title IX. Oklahoma Wesleyan is the first college or university to sue the Obama administration over that landmark guidance, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the advocacy group that is funding the lawsuit [http://bit.ly/2b8B8Dz]… Read more here.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Suit on Sex Assault Guidance
August 16, 2016
By Staff at Inside Higher Oklahoma Wesleyan University on Monday joined a former University of Virginia student’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education, becoming the first institution to legally challenge the department’s mandate that colleges use the preponderance-of-evidence standard of proof when adjudicating cases of sexual assault… Read more here.
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BREAKING: Christian College Sues the Feds to Block Low Evidence Standard in Rape Cases
August 15, 2016
By Greg Piper at The College Fix Oklahoma Wesleyan University is the first college to challenge the Department of Education’s five-year-old “guidance” that ordered schools to judge students accused of rape under a low evidence standard or lose their federal funding… Read more here.
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Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Challenging Education Dept.’s Title IX Guidance
August 15, 2016
By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz at The Chronicle of Higher Education Oklahoma Wesleyan University is joining a former University of Virginia student’s lawsuit challenging the Title IX guidance of the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, according to court documents filed Monday… Read more here.
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FIRE-backed lawsuit challenging Department of Education’s unlawful Title IX mandate voluntarily withdrawn
February 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2018 — Today, attorneys representing the U.S. Department of Education joined with attorneys for plaintiffs John Doe and Oklahoma Wesleyan University to ask a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the now-withdrawn mandate that colleges and universities use the low “preponderance of the evidence” standard of proof in all sexual misconduct cases. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education sponsored the June 2016 lawsuit as part of its mission to restore due process to our nation’s campuses. John Doe and Oklahoma Wesleyan charged that the preponderance mandate did not undergo public notice and comment as required […]
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Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Challenging 2011 ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
August 15, 2016
Today, Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU) became the first and only institution of higher education to challenge in court a 2011 mandate from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that colleges and universities adjudicate sexual misconduct allegations using the low, “preponderance of the evidence” standard. This mandate for institutions governed by Title IX—all but a few colleges and universities nationwide, whether private or public—was first announced in OCR’s April 4, 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter (DCL). OKWU is joining a FIRE-sponsored federal lawsuit originally filed in June, which seeks to invalidate this provision of the DCL on the grounds […]
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