When three graduate students sued Harvard University in early 2022 for sexual harassment by a tenured professor, they claimed the school hired the professor despite knowing that he allegedly harassed students at the last school where he worked. The students also claim Harvard ignored the professor’s sexual harassment of students at Harvard, including one of the individuals who sued. […] … learn more→
Tag Archives: sexual harassment

Colleges routinely fail to ask about new hires’ history of sexual harassment

Gay Professor officially didn’t harass gay student in sexual e-mails. It was “code”!
While the Leftist takeover of many of our campuses is disconcerting, there is, sort of, a ray of hope here: this ideology is not merely destructive, it ultimately is self-destructive, as much so for campuses as it was for countries. Part of the reason this ideology is so destructive is you can’t really defend against […] … learn more→

We’re still playing catch up with academia’s longstanding #MeToo sexual harassment problem
The #MeToo campaign has focused attention on workplace bullying, sexual harassment and assault. Are such revelations a surprise to an astronomer, like myself, who studies distant galaxies? No. I, along with the science and academic communities, have been directly confronted by these issues in recent years. Bullying, sexual harassment and assault is prevalent at universities and […] … learn more→

Universities have a problem with sexual assault and harassment: here’s how to fix it
Universities in Australia have a serious problem with sexual assault and sexual harassment. The Australian Human Rights Commission’s survey, to be released today, documents that large numbers of students have experienced sexual assault and harassment. This is no surprise. National and international studies have already established that the risks of sexual and dating violence are […] … learn more→

Why sexual harassment in schools is a hateful part of everyday life
A new parliamentary report by the Women and Equalities Committee released earlier this week has highlighted the scale of sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools across England – with more than half of the girls and young women surveyed for the report saying they had faced some form of sexual harassment at school or […] … learn more→

Breaking the silence around lecturers who are sexually harassed – by students
Sexual harassment is ubiquitous in higher education institutions around the world, and a large body of research suggests that women are its main victims. This is true for students and academics, who are experiencing sexual harassment from their superiors, their peers – and their students. It is this last category – what’s known as contrapower […] … learn more→

Sexual harassment compromises graduate students’ safety
A professor repeatedly tells sexist jokes in class. The dean comments admiringly on a student’s appearance every time he sees her. A student’s advisor sends her emails with sexual pictures and innuendo. So what? Can’t students take a joke? Can’t they take a compliment? While repeated sexual joking may not seem serious, the truth is […] … learn more→