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Last Tuesday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), under the Federal Department of Education, ruled that Harvard’s policy requiring “supporting information?? before it will launch a full investigation in a sexual assault case does not violate Title IX. But OCR’s ruling does not in any way imply that Harvard’s policy is sufficient in dealing with the problem of sexual assault on campus. Harvard’s goal should be to create a model disciplinary procedure, not to be satisfied with one that is just barely legal...
...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 one person about...
...instance, Harvard maintains that it will conduct a preliminary investigation in every case, but that only complainants who present “supporting information?? will receive a full investigation. Harvard has not explained the differences between a preliminary investigation and a full investigation and must clarify this matter. Whatever the distinction turns out to be, we adamantly believe that any student who comes forward with a sexual assault complaint should be entitled to the most thorough investigation Harvard can provide. It is only through a careful and comprehensive investigation that evidence is most likely to be discovered...
After the complaint was filed, the University changed the language of the policy this September to “corroborating information?? and then again to “supporting evidence...
...quality and accountability” are ways to assure that tax dollars do not go to waste. Future plans to hold universities accountable for their spending would be tied to “Institutional Report Cards,” which would list “tangible information?? such as job-placement rates, average starting salaries, graduate- and professional-school admission rates, passage rates for certification exams, and alumni/student satisfaction surveys. But this transparency and accountability could easily be used to shame schools for their spending...