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Bravo! Nancy Cantalupo, your message was exactly what this holiday needed! Alice Vachss

 

On 2019-12-23 09:36, Nancy Cantalupo wrote:

Dear SAPC and WRAC-L Colleagues,

 

As you are anticipating or already enjoying the holiday season, please consider spending an hour or more helping to ensure that the voices of survivors and all commenters on the recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 are properly heard by the U.S. Department of Education (ED).  You can make a valuable contribution to this effort by volunteering to help complete the Big Comment Catalog (https://sites.google.com/view/title-ix-comment-count/home), which the remainder of this email will explain. (For those of you already aware of this effort, please skip to the last paragraph of this email.)

 

Approximately a year ago, commenters ultimately numbering over 124,000 filed comments with ED, an exponentially larger level of public engagement with an ED NPRM than ever before.  As impressive and important as this historic number of comments is, it presents a challenge to any single individual or even organization to read and understand what the American public as a whole thinks about the proposals advanced in the Title IX NPRM. Moreover, as noted here, there is no legal obligation that ED disclose how ED itself cataloged each individual comment.  

 

In response to this situation, an effort to "crowd-research" the comments launched this summer to create a catalog (to be made publicly accessible once complete) collecting basic information about each individual comment.  With the catalog now over 75% complete, it is clear that the vast majority of comments were filed by survivors of sexual harassment and assault and their allies.  Nevertheless, no firm conclusions can be drawn until the catalog is complete.  In addition, as discussed by the Washington Post, ED is moving forward rapidly with finalizing the rules, increasing the urgency of completing the Catalog. 

 

For all of these reasons, your contribution of one, two or more hours of your holiday to catalog comments will go a long way in ensuring that survivors' voices and perspectives are heard in this lawmaking process.  Past volunteers, some of whom have cataloged over 1000 comments, have confirmed that cataloging 20 comments (the standard commitment asked of each volunteer) only takes between one and two hours and often significantly less.  Please go to https://sites.google.com/view/title-ix-comment-count/home to learn more and to volunteer.  Please also encourage others to volunteer to contribute an hour, two or more of their holiday leisure time to this crowd-research method.  Any questions can be directed to .  

 

Thank you and happy holidays,

Nancy

Nancy Chi Cantalupo 甘念齊

pronouns: she/her/hers

See my latest article, And Even More of Us Are Brave: Intersectionality & Sexual Harassment of Women Students of Color, at my SSRN author site: http://ssrn.com/author=884485

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