November 01, 2023
A College Stopped Investigating a Professor’s Alleged Misconduct When He Quit. That’s Illegal, U.S. Says.
The U.S. Department of Education put colleges on notice Tuesday that their obligations to investigate sexual-harassment complaints don’t end when the accused professor resigns or moves on to another institution.
That warning came in the form of an agreement between the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pa. The office found that the private institution had violated the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX when it failed to investigate years of complaints from students and the faculty that a professor, who isn’t named in the document, had been sexually harassing female students.
That warning came in the form of an agreement between the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Arcadia University, in Glenside, Pa. The office found that the private institution had violated the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX when it failed to investigate years of complaints from students and the faculty that a professor, who isn’t named in the document, had been sexually harassing female students.