One Person as ‘Prosecutor, Judge and Jury’

As speculation swirls over how the Trump administration will direct colleges to handle campus sexual assaults, George Washington University (DC) has moved away from a panel of students and professors judging these cases, handing them over instead to a single investigator.  The shifts at George Washington speak to a larger debate on how colleges will respond to an Education Department that has given them far more flexibility under Title IX than the previous administration did -- which is detrimental, supporters of sexual assault survivors say.