Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Dept. of Education: U-Va. violated federal rules for responding to sexual violence

By Nick Anderson and T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post

The University of Virginia violated federal rules on sexual violence issues several times in recent years, failing to provide “prompt and equitable” responses to allegations of sexual assault, the U.S. Education Department said Monday.

Virginia’s flagship public university fell short in its handling of 22 of 50 reports of sexual harassment from 2008 to 2012, the department said. Twenty-one of those reports alleged “sexual assault, some including rape and gang rape.”

Read the article here.

Read the official U.S. Department of Education press release here.

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