Two women who were victims of sexual misconduct by former Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez criticized the findings of an external review into DomÃnguezâs misconduct and urged the University to take stronger measures to address sexual harassment.
In 2018, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a pair of articles in which 18 women publicly accused DomÃnguez of repeated acts of sexual misconduct, establishing a pattern that extended across four decades. The University had, in fact, found DomÃnguez guilty of sexual harassment against former Government assistant professor Terry L. Karl in 1983.
The external review identified failures in Harvardâs enforcement of its own sanctions against DomÃnguez following Karlâs complaint. Following an investigation, then-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky prohibited DomÃnguez from receiving administrative appointments for the next three years. Yet just two years later, in 1985, Domingue