Dive Brief:

• Twelve more colleges and universities have been added to the list of institutions under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for how they handled allegations of sexual abuse.
• The added schools are the University of Alaska, Berklee College of Music, Cisco Junior College, Colorado State University, the University of Delaware, Elmira College, James Madison University, Morgan State University,  Missouri University of Science and Technology, the University of Richmond, and Washburn University.
• Added to the names announced in May, the new names bring the total institutions under investigation to 67.

Dive Insight:

Unlike the list announced in May, the Department of Education apparently didn’t issue a press release for the new additions. The department doesn’t say what each school is under investigation for, but we do know that the new names on the list were for cases opened on or after May 5, and that some of the investigations were initiated because of complaints made to the department while others began after compliance reviews. Most of the new schools on the list are declining to say what their case involves, but Morgan State University was forthright: It’s being investigated for a complaint filed June 26th for an on-campus sexual assault in February, which was reported in March and has been referred to the Baltimore City Police Department.