PACT5 talks about Professor/Student Sexual Assault, stating, "As advisers, teachers, and mentors, faculty members may be among the most trusted adults in a student’s life. Often a student will invest a deep and respectful trust in a faculty member and if that faculty member responds in a sexually inappropriate way, it violates that trust, it is confusing, and it can often be traumatic to the student."
The Title IX application to sexual harassment and assault started with a 1980 case about a Yale professor propositioning his students for sex. Plaintiff Ann Olivarius was threatened with arrest for "libel" for reporting the professor's advances to Yale administrators.
Bullied into silence is an article that points out with refreshing honesty about how prevalent sexual harassment and misconduct is among university faculty, and how this is well-known but largely ignored by university administrators.
Web of Justice: From the Education Department making public a list of institutions under investigation for their handling of sexual assault allegations, to Columbia University students scrawling the names of their alleged rapists in bathroom stalls, this spring has been one of “outings” regarding alleged sexual assaults on college campuses.
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/19/unofficial-internet-campaign-outs-professor-alleged-sexual-harassment-attempted#ixzz33RHGuH53
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/19/unofficial-internet-campaign-outs-professor-alleged-sexual-harassment-attempted#ixzz33RHGuH53
Professors who speak up are punished by university administration: Dr. Kimberly Theidon, an anthropologist whose work inspired the Oscar-nominated 2009 film "The Milk of Sorrow," filed a complaint against Harvard on March 24 with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. The complaint alleges that Harvard denied Theidon tenure because of her work with sexual assault victims at the school.