DOE Title IX Revamp of Campus Disciplinary Process Casts Wide Net

This October, the Department of Education is slated to make sweeping changes across Title IX's implementing regulations. The expansive proposed revisions would impact college and university grievance procedures, which are designed to promptly and equitably resolve complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of sex.

Federal departments and agencies typically make only micro-adjustments to general and permanent rules in the Code of Federal Regulations. But the DOE's 2022 proposed Title IX rulemaking stood out because of its size (700 pages) and its ambition.