Today, in a letter to stakeholders, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it was undertaking a review of Title IX regulations. OCR will hold an upcoming public hearing in the next few weeks, at a date to be announced, and plans to issue a question-and-answer document in the coming months. Furthermore, OCR anticipates publishing in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend the Department’s Title IX regulations. This notice will provide stakeholders with an additional opportunity to respond through a formal notice-and-comment period.

The letter from the Department of Education may be accessed here. An overview from the Chronicle of Higher Education may be accessed here.