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For U. of Virginia’s Miller Center, a Reckoning in the #MeToo Era

October 16, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Jack Stripling

October 11, 2018

Around sunset one day last October, a group of well-dressed men and women walked across the University of Virginia’s Lawn to the Colonnade Club, a charming social space housed in a pavilion that dates back 200 years, to the university’s founding.

It was a gathering for the Miller Center for Public Affairs, a nonpartisan affiliate of the university devoted to the study of U.S. presidents and the promotion of civil dialogue. The guests of honor that night were the members of the center’s Governing Council, mostly wealthy white men, who oversee and are the financial lifeblood of the organization. Now some of those same generous donors are said to have perpetuated a culture of sexual harassment at the Miller Center, where women say they have been professionally undermined and inappropriately propositioned.

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