Two women who were victims of sexual misconduct by former Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez criticized the findings of an external review into DomÃnguezâs misconduct and urged the University to take stronger measures to address sexual harassment.
In 2018, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a pair of articles in which 18 women publicly accused DomÃnguez of repeated acts of sexual misconduct, establishing a pattern that extended across four decades. The University had, in fact, found DomÃnguez guilty of sexual harassment against former Government assistant professor Terry L. Karl in 1983.
The external review identified failures in Harvardâs enforcement of its own sanctions against DomÃnguez following Karlâs complaint. Following an investigation, then-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky prohibited DomÃnguez from receiving administrative appointments for the next three years. Yet just two years later, in 1985, Domingue
University President Lawrence S. Bacow said in a Wednesday interview that Harvard is taking steps to create a âcentralized processâ to access personnel records following an external review that in part blamed Harvardâs decentralized structure for failures to respond to sexual harassment complaints.
Bacowâs remarks come one week after the external review â commissioned following the 2018 revelation of decades of sexual harassment by former Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez â detailed Harvardâs failures to respond to reports of misconduct over a span of nearly 40 years.
Bacow said in the interview that the University accepts the reportâs recommendations, but some policy changes âare going to take a little bit of timeâ to develop.
Four women who were victims of sexual misconduct by former Government professor Jorge I. DomÃnguez penned a letter to University President Lawrence S. Bacow Friday in response to an external review committee report published last week on the circumstances that enabled DomÃnguezâs misconduct.
In 2019, Bacow charged the external review committee with investigating the conditions in the Government department and across the University that protected DomÃnguez â who had a history of sexual misconduct involving at least 18 victims over the course of four decades â and others with track records of misconduct.
In their letter, the women â former Government assistant professor Terry L. Karl, Government Ph.D. graduate Suzanna E. Challen, and Government concentrators Charna E. Sherman â80, and Nienke C. Grossman â99 â thanked Bacow for the public apology he issued to Karl alongside the report, but took issue with the review committeeâs finding
The âSecondâ Class of 2024
More than 20 international freshmen interviewed said their first semester of college was marked by nocturnal schedules, social isolation, and inadequate support from the College. Many said they feel pessimistic that things will get better this spring.
Like many Harvard students, Nabin Poudel â24 stays up late to complete his assignments in time for typical midnight deadlines.
Unlike others, though, midnight in Cambridge falls around 10 a.m. local time the next morning for Poudel, who is taking classes online from his home in Nepal this academic year.
âSometimes I would find myself working [the] whole night on assignments,â Poudel said.