(Falls Church, VA) The Center for Equal Opportunity has launched a campaign to caution American colleges and universities against developing improper campus sexual misconduct regimes. The communication offers a number of best practices that schools should implement to align with judicial decisions that have been released affirming due process elements of the 2020 U.S. Department of Education Title IX regulation. These best practices relate to procedural due process, impartiality and bias, burdens of proof, standards of evidence, and the right to representation, live hearings, and final reports. In the initial round of mailings, CEO has contacted one school in each …

From the The Federal Society’s Regulatory and Transparency Project: A new panel discussion on Critical Race Theory. Linda Chavez, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity moderates the program and is joined by Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars and author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, and John Agresto, former President of St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Related posts: The Nitty Gritty of Diversity Meaningful Numbers Achieving, or Not, Critical Mass When Academic Achievement Means ‘Acting White’

This post originally appeared on the Manhattan Institute Website CEO Chairman Linda Chavez interviews Wall Street Journal columnist and CEO board member Jason Riley on his new biography of Thomas Sowell.  With a career spanning more than a half-century and contributions to fields ranging from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture, Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest social theorists of our age. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been …