By Andrew Kreighbaum. A group of top law schools on Monday released the results of a survey of workplace harassment policies at law firms recruiting on their campuses. More...
Education Department Investigates USC
By Scott Jaschik. The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has started a "systemic investigation into the University of Southern California’s (USC) handling of reports of sexual harassment against former employee Dr. George Tyndall," the department announced Monday. More...
One Person as ‘Prosecutor, Judge and Jury’
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Experts fear the worst with George Washington's new Title IX policies, in which a single investigator decides whether to move forward with a sexual assault case. More...
Sexual Assault Exams Right on Campus
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University of Michigan gives students who say they've been assaulted a rape kit rather than sending them to the local hospital, which administrators say benefits survivors. More...
Student Wants to 'End Affirmative Action for Women'
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights will investigate an unusual Title IX complaint that Yale discriminates against men by having certain programs and scholarships for women. More...
Harassment Unchecked
By Colleen Flaherty. National Academies report says sexual harassment is costly to science and that compliance-based approaches to curbing it don't work. Promoting civility and otherwise managing research and learning climates is more effective, it says. More...
Rebel or Reject?
By Colleen Flaherty. How sexual harassment allegations against a guest speaker rocked Santa Barbara City College last semester -- and, one professor says, cost him his job. More...
U Oklahoma Returned Accused Professor's Donations
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Oklahoma returned donations from a retired professor of engineering accused of sexual harassment and banned him from working on campus in 2016, The Norman Transcript reported. More...
Man Charged With Threatening Professor
By Colleen Flaherty. Police charged a Boston man with threat to commit assault and civil rights violations this week, months after he allegedly threatened a Bridgewater State University professor about his social media comments. More...
Relationship Restrictions
By Colleen Flaherty. A number of colleges and universities banned faculty-undergraduate dating or otherwise shored up their consensual relationship policies after the Education Department published a reminder letter about sexual harassment liability, in 2011. Other institutions had adopted such policies earlier. More...