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Last spring, an anonymous student, supported by CASV, filed a complaint with the United States Office for Civil Rights (OCR), claiming that the College’s sexual assault policy violated the civil rights granted to women by Title...
...OCR officially upheld Harvard’s policy, “as explained by College staff,” this winter...
Neuhaus-Follini credits the complaint to the OCR with prompting College administrators to change the policy’s wording...
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...
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...