Acting on a number of bills over the weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed into law a measure that will ban the carrying of concealed guns on college campuses in the state, but vetoed legislation that would have required colleges to set tougher penalties for sexual assault. The sex-assault bill, AB 967, would have required the state’s college and university systems, as well as independent institutions that receive state student aid, to adopt uniform sexual-assault policies across their campuses, and for those policies to mandate specific punishments, including suspension for a minimum of two years and possible expulsion of students found guilty of the “most egregious” violations. The bill also called for colleges to post annual public reports about sexual-misconduct complaints and investigations on their campuses.

October 11, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education