From Inside Higher Ed comes an article that describes why universities will have a hard time dealing with issues of sexual harassment/assault:
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to help block the release of
records about how the University of Montana punished a student accused
of sexual assault, citing student privacy laws -- at a time when the
Obama administration is pressuring colleges to become more transparent
about the issue...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/16/us-says-records-athlete-accused-assault-should-not-be-released
We have been noting the practical problems UCLA and other universities will have dealing with an issue that in some cases is basically a crime/police matter. And we have noted that there can be cases in which faculty are in one way or another caught in the middle.
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