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Sexual Harassment of Students Worse Than It Seems

July 18, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed
Colleen Flaherty
July 18, 2017

Like many debates about higher education, those about sexual harassment are often based on anecdotes and opinion.  To some, male professors in particular are victims in waiting of the PC police anxious to punish a stray comment.  To others, faculty harassers are finally being held accountable for sexually predatory behavior toward vulnerable students.

"A Systematic Look at a Serial Problem: Sexual Harassment of Students by University Faculty" seeks to cut through the noise with data analyzing nearly 300 faculty-student harassment cases for commonalities.  The study, which focused on complaints by graduate students, led to two major findings: most faculty harassers are accused of physical, not verbal, harassment, and more than half of cases -- 53 percent -- involved alleged serial harassers.

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.

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