Education Department Fines Miami U.

The U.S. Education Department has fined Miami University, in Ohio, $27,500 for failing to give sexual-assault victims written notice of the outcomes of disciplinary proceedings arising from their cases.

This past summer the department found that the university had violated the Clery Act, a federal law that requires colleges and universities to disclose information about crimes on their campuses.

From 1999 to 2004 there were nine sexual-assault cases at Miami, but in six of them

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