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
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âA Permissive Cultureâ: Six Takeaways on Harvardâs Failure to Prevent Decades of DomÃnguez Harassment
In a 26-page report released by the University on Thursday, an external committee reviewing sexual harassment at Harvard detailed a âpermissive culture regarding sexual harassmentâ at the school. Here are six key takeaways.
Advocates placed posters in the Center for Government and International Studies lobby in 2019 calling for an external review of the circumstances that allowed former Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez to sexually harass women at Harvard for nearly four decades. The results of that external probe were released Thursday.
On August 2, 1983, Henry Rosovsky, the then-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, placed a letter in the personnel file of Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez following an investigation that found DomÃnguez had sexually harassed assistant Government professor Terry L. Karl.
Harvard apologizes to sexual assault victims after a review found it did little to address multiple harassment claims over nearly 40 YEARS against a powerful professor - and instead promoted him to vice provost
Harvard University did little to address allegations of sexual harassment by ex- Vice Provost Jorge Dominguez, an external review found this week
Instead, the Ivy League school carried on promoting the professor despite allegations of predatory behavior by women dating back to 1979
The report found Harvard has a permissive culture toward sexual harassment with power imbalances and a lack of female staff contributing to failures
The report also found that there were multiple reports made against other, unnamed male faculty members over the years, also not acted upon