Professors at Harvard Law School are urging the university to revoke new procedures addressing on-campus sexual misconduct, saying the rule goes too far. In July, Harvard announced a new university-wide policy to prevent sexual violence, lowering the burden of proof necessary to find someone guilty. It also created a central office to investigate sexual assaults. […]
Kirk Carapezza
Kirk Carapezza covers higher education for GBH News in Boston and hosts its consumer-facing podcast College Uncovered.
Harvard Creates Central Office To Investigate Sexual Assault
Harvard will implement its first university-wide sexual assault policy this fall. As part of the policy, a team of trained civil rights investigators, working out of a new centralized office, will review all sexual assault cases at each of the university’s thirteen schools. Previously, academic administrators had been the ones to investigate those reports. In a […]

