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New bill would require universities receiving federal funding to report professors’ sexual harassment

SEP 23, 2016
Physics Today

BuzzFeed : To retain their federal grant money, universities may soon have to report sexual harassment allegations made against their professors. California representative Jackie Speier (D) has introduced a bill in the US House to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 by requiring institutions of higher education to “notify certain Federal agencies when principal investigators at such institutions engage in discrimination on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.” Speier proposed the bill after several high-profile researchers, who had been awarded millions in research money, continued to work at their universities despite having a history of sexually harassing students and lab employees. The aim is to make universities accountable for any discriminatory and abusive behavior committed by their employees.

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