Postgraduates endure university staff sexual abuse
Sexual harassment rife on university campuses
Cairo University Fights Sexual Harassment
Three years ago, when a mob of law school students assaulted a young woman on the campus of Cairo University, American studies professor Maha El Said wondered why the school didn’t have a policy against sexual harassment. More...
Campus sexual-assault victims deserve better from Office of Civil Rights
Recent comments by the U.S. Education Department official in charge of the Office of Civil Rights have already tainted that new approach, worrying college administrators who say they’ve been happy to see more attention paid to this problem. More...
I'm a college president. DeVos should help me deal with sexual assault.
We were more than halfway through the semester when a law student stopped by my office. I invited her in. "I don't know how to say this," she hesitated. "This class has brought up so much for me — stuff I never dealt with when it happened, and don't want to think about now." Tears fell down her cheeks. More...
Campus rape policies get a new look as the accused get DeVos’s ear
The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault. Some had lost scholarships. Some had been expelled. More...
More men named in sex assault cases are taking accusers to court
In the past three years, male students accused of sexual misconduct have filed hundreds of lawsuits, charging that they were the victims of both false allegations and school procedures that failed to properly vet the claims. More...
Cultural change is needed to tackle sexual harassment on campus
A steady stream of unsettling reports and surveys on sexual harassment in universities keep appearing. This started in 2010 with the NUS report Hidden Marks [pdf], which found that 68% of students had experienced verbal or physical sexual harassment. A recent Guardian investigation also uncovered more than 160 accounts of staff-to-student sexual harassment, highlighting a lesser-documented issue that poses further emotional and academic obstacles to victims. This issue is not going away, but there are finally signs that universities are starting to respond. More...
Understanding why some female teachers sexually abuse pupils
More than 100 women were convicted of sexual offences in 2015. The figures, obtained via a freedom of information request, show the number of convictions almost trebled in a decade. Among those convicted were a number of school staff, including teachers, a head teacher and a teaching assistant. More...