Description: Understand your right to be free from sexual assault and harassment
In September 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy Devos withdrew the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) 2011 Dear Colleague Letter and 2014 Questions and Answers (Q&A) that provided significant rights to survivors, and issued her own 2017 Q&A .
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This is such a joke. Universities, like the recent cases at Mormon schools in Utah and my own experience in New York State, use their disciplinary procedures — often taking disciplinary action against a student who reports a sexual harassment situation — to intimidate and silence students who file a complaint. When I reported that a professor’s inappropriate behavior was making me uncomfortable to the chair of my department, she told me the incident had to be reported, which she did, to the Associate Dean o