In the five years since a federal agency announced new rules governing how colleges should respond to allegations of rape and sexual assault, opponents have argued that student and faculty rights have been dangerously eroded. The directive known as the “Dear Colleague” letter brought national scrutiny to the issue, upended the way most school officials responded to claims of sexual assault and made the problem a much greater priority for many schools. But opponents such as Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, warned that colleges now use a standard of evidence so low that it’s dramatically different from a court of law, and inherently unfair.

October 4, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post