The Education Department issued new interim guidelines Friday that roll back federal rules governing campus sexual harassment investigations. The department is withdrawing guidelines issued by former President Barack Obama’s administration, which required colleges to aggressively investigate sexual harassment complaints, said Candice Jackson, the department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, in a letter. Read more...

Photo: University of California systemwide Title IX coordinator Kathleen Salvaty has previously said the UC will not be changing its sexual harassment investigation procedures. (Daily Bruin file photo)