Professor Peter Lake quoted in The Columbia Spectator
By Gavrielle Jacobovitz
The Columbia Spectator
Nov. 14, 2019
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According to Peter Lake, the chair and director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson, the University is not bound to a system of mandatory reporting for all faculty members by law. “The concept of a responsible employee is a regulatory requirement,” says Lake, who previously served as Stetson’s interim director of Title IX compliance. “So the prime motivation for a lot of schools that have those systems was the government told them to do so.” But this responsible employee can just be one person—a Title IX coordinator—based on current regulations.
The complete article was originally published in The Columbia Spectator on Nov. 14, 2019, with the headline, “Students and Faculty Say Gender-Based Harassment and Discrimination at Columbia is Systemic. Why Are They Turning Away From the System Built to Address It?”
Post date: Dec. 16, 2019
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