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Settlement Agreement BetweenSettlement Agreement • August 24th, 2023
In January 2022, the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas (collectively, the United States) opened an investigation under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000c et seq. (Title IV), to determine whether Highland Community College (HCC) discriminated on the basis of race in its surveillance, searches, and discipline of Black students and in its response to allegations of employee- on-student race-based harassment. Under Title IV, the United States is authorized to address certain complaints of discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin by public colleges and universities. 42 U.S.C. § 2000c-6(a)(2).
