By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Turku in Finland announced Wednesday that it had canceled its employment contract with theoretical astrophysicist Christian Ott, days after the university defended its decision to hire Ott despite his history of sexual harassment. More...
Juilliard Reviewing U of Cincinnati's Harassment Findings
By Colleen Flaherty. The Juilliard School is reviewing an investigation that found one of its former instructors had engaged in “severe, persistent or pervasive” sexual harassment of students over two decades, when he was a professor of music at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.com reported. More...
Historians Pledge Action on Harassment
By Colleen Flaherty. In a new report to members of the American Historical Association, Mary Beth Norton, AHA president, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, pledged action on sexual harassment -- including developing a procedure that could expel offenders from AHA events. More...
A College's List of Alleged Rapists
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Administrators grapple with campus version of #MeToo movement in which students are publicly naming others and accusing them of sexual assault. More...
Mediating Sexual Assault
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The University of Michigan will now allow certain cases of sexual assault to be resolved with mediation and other methods, such as sexual violence classes for accused students, a move the university believes could help victims who don’t want to pursue an arduous formal process. More...
A Title IX Win for the Accused
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A federal appeals court has partially sided with a male student who alleged that Miami University in Ohio was discriminatory when he was investigated for sexual assault and subsequently suspended. More...
Bill would hold universities to account for sexual abuse
University of Cambridge admits 'significant' problem with sexual misconduct
Le harcèlement sexuel est un délit passible d’emprisonnement
Le harcèlement sexuel est le fait d’imposer à une personne, de façon répétée, des propos ou comportements à connotation sexuelle qui soit portent atteinte à sa dignité en raison de leur caractère dégradant ou humiliant, soit créent à son encontre une situation intimidante, hostile ou offensante. Plus...
Bretagne. Les universités s’engagent contre le harcèlement sexuel
L’union fait la force. Les présidents des universités bretonnes se sont engagés, à Rennes, ce lundi 20 novembre, par une charte, dans la lutte contre les violences sexuelles dans leurs établissements.
Rassemblés ce lundi sur le campus de Kerlann, près de Rennes, les responsables de 14 universités et écoles supérieures bretonnes se sont engagés, par la signature d’une charte, contre le harcèlement et les violences sexuelles dans leurs établissements. Plus...