Colleges routinely fail to ask about new hires’ history of sexual harassment
When three graduate students sued Harvard University in early 2022 for sexual harassment by a tenured professor, they claimed the school hired the professor despite knowing that he allegedly harassed students at the last school where he worked.
The students also claim Harvard ignored the professor’s sexual harassment of students at Harvard, including one of the individuals who sued. Their lawsuit also alleges the school ignored how the professor allegedly retaliated against them.
Such allegations may leave students, parents and the general public wondering if colleges and universities take the issue of sexual harassment seriously.