VIRGINIA
Chronicle of Higher Education
An article in The New Republic details allegations that the administration of Patrick Henry College, an evangelical Christian institution in Purcellville, Va., has mishandled several female students’ reports that they were sexually assaulted during their time at the college.
The college does not accept federal money and, as a result, is not subject to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a gender-equity law, or the Clery Act, a campus-crime-reporting law, though Patrick Henry says it tries to follow the principles of those statutes.
The college disputed the article’s assertions in a five-page response to the magazine. The college said it was “firmly committed to honoring and protecting the dignity of all of our students, male and female alike.”
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