A couple of alert EMUTalk.org readers sent me versions of this article, “Va. Tech’s federal appeal could set precendent (sic),” this particular one from the spelling impaired Hampton Roads PilotOnline web site. Here’s an interesting quote:
The university, with help from the Virginia attorney general’s office, is appealing $55,000 in fines levied against it by the U.S. Department of Education in March 2011. The three-day hearing is part of that appeal, which will be handled by Chief Judge Ernest Canellos of the department’s Office of Higher Education Appeals.
The hearing itself is precedent setting, said Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, a nonprofit that advocates for Clery compliance.
“There has never been a Clery Act hearing,” Carter said.
But it may not be the last. Investigators have been on the Penn State campus for a Clery Act investigation into whether the university failed to report incidents of sexual abuse in connection to allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
EMU is mentioned in the article as being the infamous “winner” of the largest fine under the Clery Act to date, though I have a feeling we’ll soon be in third place.
