55 Schools Face US Federal Sex Assault Probe; Six from Mass.

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department on Thursday took the unprecedented step of releasing the names of the 55 colleges and universities currently facing a Title IX investigation over their handling of sexual abuse complaints. There are six Massachusetts colleges and universities—Amherst College, Boston University, Emerson College, Harvard College, Harvard University Law School, and UMass Amherst—on the list.

The release came two days after a White House task force promised greater government transparency on sexual assault in higher education. Going forward, the department said, it will keep an updated list of schools facing such an investigation and make it available upon request.


The schools range from big public universities like Ohio State University, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Arizona State University to private schools like Knox College in Illinois, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Catholic University of America in the District of Columbia. Ivy League schools like Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth are also on the list.

The agency previously would confirm such an investigation when asked, but students and others were often unaware of them.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/education/2014/05/01/schools-face-federal-sex-assault-probe-six-from-mass/V1AJQtoPoEXyG3QaJy779K/story.html?p1=Must_Reads

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The press release from the Department of Education with the list: http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-list-higher-education-institutions-open-title-i

[seabeyond]

1. Yes. This is what we need. Action. From the top. God forbid, but to take rape seriously.

Thank you for the op

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Well...

It's a start.

[merrily]

3. Mass has a lot of institutions of higher learning for its size.

Maybe 40 years ago, there were more institutions of higher learning in the Boston area than any other city in the world, including NYC.

Not excusing anything. Just speculating why such a small state in terms of square miles may seem to stand out in this mess.

[bluedigger]

4. I think they are just using these schools to draw attention to the issue.

You are correct that Mass. has more schools and therefore a bigger candidate list. They have limited resources and are investigating around the country. I found it really interesting that Harvard School of Law made the list. Seems like someone I've heard of both studied and taught there. Probably just a coincidence, though...

[merrily]

5. I don't know about Harvard Law, but Harvard Med was notoriously sexist in the 1980s.

Horror stories abounded. And, then there's.....

Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers

Remember his comment that women may have less aptitude for science than do men? Sounds like the same attitude that would kept women doctors down in the past, as mentioned above. Hopefully, women have more aptitude for economics than Summers! No, scratch hopefully. They do.

In my opinion, his wiki reeks.

[shenmue]

6. The list of schools

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-releases-list-higher-education-institutions-open-title-i

At the Department of Education website.