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Colleges routinely fail to ask about new hires' history of sexual harassment

  • Written by Susan Fortney, University Professor and Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
imageSexual harassment affects almost one out of every two college students. Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

When three graduate students sued Harvard University in early 2022 for sexual harassment by a tenured professor, they claimed the school hired the professor despite knowing that he allegedly harassed students at the...

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