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Amid the flurry of hellos exchanged by students and instructors is a general misconception about disability, according to campus graduate student Rosa Enriquez.
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Chelsea Yogerst started in September as the Title IX coordinator and compliance officer for the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, succeeding Dana Clark.
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For the first time in memory, UC Berkeley agreed in March to be placed under indefinite federal Title IX monitoring as a result of an investigation into alleged Title IX violations against the Cal women’s field hockey team.
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened a complaint into possible gender-based discrimination faced by players of the Cal women’s field hockey team, which stems from campus’s failure to provide the team with a home field for the past year.
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At a meeting Wednesday, the Berkeley Unified School District board passed an interim sexual harassment policy, identical to the policy of the California School Board Association.
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The federal Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation in January to address complaints from Berkeley High School students, who allege the school district committed a federal offense under Title IX by failing to respond adequately to sexual assault and harassment cases.
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UC Berkeley and three other California schools join 51 others across the nation in a new list of higher education institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal law regarding the handling of sexual violence cases.
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The federal government is engaged in an ongoing investigation, which began in late March, into how UC Berkeley handles sexual violence complaints and whether that could lead to a hostile environment on campus.
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Two San Francisco-based lawyers have filed an appeal asking the U.S. Department of Education to revisit a previously-dismissed complaint that alleged UC Berkeley administrators failed to respond to a hostile environment towards Jewish students on campus.
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On Tuesday the federal government dismissed a complaint that UC Berkeley administrators did not do enough to curb “an environment hostile to Jewish students” as a result of student demonstrations against Israeli policies.
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