How a ‘Defunct’ Title IX Office and a Culture of Hypermasculinity Fueled a Sexual-Misconduct Problem at Morehouse College

Gooden is one of at least six Title IX coordinators — three of them interims — to have worked at Morehouse College in the past three academic years. Former students and others who have worked on the campus say this turnover, coupled with the all-male HBCU’s masculine culture, has allowed sexual misconduct and homophobia to persist at Morehouse.