HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Due Process For Me But Not For Thee.
There’s another sexual assault accusation in Liberal Land, this time against someone who trains college administrators on how to handle sexual assault accusations.
Jason Casares, the deputy Title IX director at Indiana University and current president-elect of the Association for Student Conduct Administration, was accused of sexual assault by fellow ASCA board member Jill Creighton. Creighton was elected president of the group for the 2016-2017 term.
Creighton wrote in a lengthy letter last Wednesday that Casares “took advantage of me after I had had too much to drink” during a conference in Texas. She filed a criminal complaint with local police back in December.
“I also could not stand the hypocrisy of Jason parading his expertise on Title IX, knowing how he had behaved with me,” Creighton wrote. . . .
Casares is still being investigated by the police over Creighton’s accusations, but an independent investigation performed for the ASCA cleared him of wrongdoing. And this is where some of the real hypocrisy comes into play.
The ASCA hired an independent investigator from a Texas law firm to conduct an investigation into Creighton’s claims. The investigator who was selected had “experience in investigating allegations of misconduct of non-profit board members as well as experience investigating the nature of the allegations in the received complaint,” according to a letter the ASCA sent to its members on Thursday.
The investigator “determined that Ms. Creighton’s claims could not be substantiated,” so the complaint was resolved in Executive Session.
This investigation was fairer than what accused students get at colleges and universities across the country. Most schools have someone like Casares — a university employee — conduct the investigation. These employees are under pressure from the federal government to find students responsible for sexual assault, no matter what the evidence suggests.
The standards are always different for the nobility than for the serfs.