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The DePaulia

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The DePaulia

FILE-Jessica Landis, former Title IX Coordinator.

A conversation with DePaul Title IX

Ella Lee and Emma Oxnevad May 6, 2019

Jessica Landis, the Title IX coordinator at DePaul, spoke with The DePaulia to offer her perspective on a previous story published about the Title IX office. While our conversation with her shed light...

Students speak out against proposed Title IX reforms

Students speak out against proposed Title IX reforms

Emma Oxnevad, Online Managing Editor January 22, 2019

DePaul students voiced their discontent against proposed Title IX changes made by the Department of Education by holding a letter-writing campaign in Arts & Letters on Friday, Jan. 18. On Nov. 16,...

Safety report shows campus crime statistics stagnating

Safety report shows campus crime statistics stagnating

Carina Smith, Nation & World Editor October 15, 2018

The 2018 Safety and Security Information Report and Fire Safety Report was released late last month, showing that DePaul’s crime has remained nearly unchanged throughout the last few years. The...

Chicago Public Schools losing $4 million federal grant money

Samuel Rahman, Contributing Writer October 15, 2018

The federal Department of Education has decided to withhold $4 million in grant money from Chicago Public Schools, citing the district’s failure to protect students from sexual assault. The letter notifying...

Power player: Former DePaul student sues ex-professor for sexual coercion

Power player: Former DePaul student sues ex-professor for sexual coercion

DePaulia Investigation April 2, 2018

Some parts of this story may be upsetting or disturbing to readers, as the language used in court documents that The DePaulia recovered includes graphic sexual language. A lawsuit from a former DePaul...

Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke about proposed changes to Title IX, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. at George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. 
(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Official report: Sexual violence on campus

Amber Colón, Editor-in-Chief November 13, 2017

As front pages across the nation are ripe with accusations of sexual violence, the topic of sexual assault is still a hot topic on campuses across the country. In 2015, the Illinois state legislature passed...

Betsy DeVos announced changes to sexual assault policy that could affect DePaul. (Photo courtesy of  The Associated Press)

Grassroots response to federal sexual assault policy bubbles up

Carina Smith, Nation & World Editor October 16, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced in September that the Department of Education would be rescinding an Obama-era guideline that outlined how schools should handle a sexual assault. The announcement...

A recent graduate from the College of William & Mary, reacts after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke about proposed changes to Title IX, Thursday, Sept. 7 at George Mason University Arlington, Virginia, campus. 
(Jacquelyn Martin, AP)

University sex education not enough

Evelyn Baker September 18, 2017

A college campus can be a playground for young adults, many of them who are away from their family homes for the first time. At a city college like DePaul where the campus is comprised of the third largest...

Sonja Breda, 23, right, holds a sign saying "Stop Betsy" as a group of survivors of sexual violence and their supporters gather to protest proposed changes to Title IX before a speech by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, at the George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. (Jacquelyn Martin, The DePaulia)

Changing Title IX, interim measures threaten student success

Sam Mendoza September 18, 2017

On-campus sexual misconduct has been placed into the spotlight with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announcing that certain Title IX regulations will be rolled back; specifically in the ways a school...

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