Cal State Releases Full Title IX Review
Liam Knox
July 16, 2023
The law firm Cozen O’Connor released its full external review of California State University’s Title IX and Discrimination, Retaliation and Harassment (DHR) procedures yesterday, recommending a slew of reporting and adjudication changes that it estimates will cost the system about $25 million a year.
The firm detailed its preliminary findings in June, saying that while CSU had made efforts to improve and comply with the investigation, its Title IX complaint and adjudication processes were “insufficient” and “unreliable.”
The full report—which is over 1,600 pages, including the 236-page systemwide report and reports for each of the 23 campuses—goes into more detail, noting that the subjects interviewed about their experience with the Title IX process consistently expressed feelings of “institutional betrayal and grave disappointment in response to these incidents.”
