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Colleges must confront sexual assault and sexual harassment head on

  • Written by Tricia Serio, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sexual assault and harassment are prevalent at U.S. colleges and universities.Jason Salmon from www.shutterstock.com

In the past month the National Science Foundation and a bipartisan group of U.S. senators both introduced measures that would require higher education leaders to review and report cases of sexual assault and harassment on their...

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