Title IX policies aren’t understandable to students
Students lack familiarity with Title IX not just because they aren’t taught about it but because schools’ written Title IX policies aren’t understandable, a new study suggests. The bureaucratic, technical wording in those policies wasn’t written for them. Researchers asked 200 undergraduates to analyze one of five typical Title IX policies, the kind that a college might post on its website. The students found critical terms and concepts incomprehensible. So a student who had been sexually assaulted wouldn’t get an understandable definition of sexual assault or what their school considers proof of sexual assault for Title IX hearings, Laura Beth […]
