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...members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV), we are encouraged that OCR’s investigation pushed Harvard to backtrack from and clarify its policy. We hope that Harvard’s successive revisions from requiring “sufficient independent corroboration?? to “corroborating information” to “supporting information” represent more than semantic attempts at appeasement. Harvard’s note on the Ad Board’s website that “supporting information” can be nearly anything, including evidence of having told just...
While Harvard has taken positive steps away from a “corroboration?? rule, OCR’s finding does not make the Ad Board a just process. The scope of the complaint to OCR was narrow, and there are many components of Harvard’s disciplinary process for sexual assault cases that the complaint did not directly challenge and that remain worrisome...
...consistent with the gender-equity provisions of Title IX despite the challenge filed by an anonymous Harvard undergraduate. The student argued that Harvard’s policy—which as of last spring was worded to require the claimant to provide “sufficient independent corroboration??—discriminated against women, denying prompt and equitable recourse to students who experienced sexual assault...
...Harvard tried to defend its practices before the OCR, it continued to backpedal when defining its standard. What was initially called “sufficient independent corroboration?? became only “corroborating evidence” and then “supporting information.” In doing so, the University quietly reversed much of the damage that would have been done by the original standard. Though the policy, as now worded, is not illegal, it still fails to address the needs of Harvard’s sexual assault victims. The corroboration standard attempted to cope with...
Most notably, Murphy cited the change in Harvard’s official policy statement from “sufficient independent corroboration?? to “supporting information...