Area Universities Respond to Sexual Assault Investigation
Six Massachusetts schools, including Amherst College, Boston University, Emerson College, Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and UMass Amherst, are among 55 schools now under investigation by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights for their handling of sexual assault cases. The schools responded to local media outlets throughout Thursday.
In a statement released Thursday, UMass Amherst said they were listed in the Office of Civil Rights report as part of a compliance review started in 2011.
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Amherst College spokeswoman Caroline Hanna emailed a statementt to the Daily Hampshire Gazette saying the investigation was connected to a pair of incidents at the school. In one case, the assault survivor said she was told to “forgive and forget’’ the incident happened.
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Boston University told student newspaper the Daily Free Press it would cooperate fully with the investigation.
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Harvard University spokesman Jeff Neal said the school has taken “a number of steps’’ to improve the school’s response to sexual assaults, according to The Boston Globe.
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On Wednesday, Emerson told CBS news it could not comment on the Title IX complaint but that it was “working diligently to expand our education and sex assault prevention programs.’’
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