UW-Milwaukee released sexual assault and sexual harassment complaints against faculty and staff from 2013 to present, with cases running the gamut from a teaching assistant allegedly giving students nicknames such as “nipples” and “blondie” to a sexual assault case where the office was not able to find evidence of investigatory findings. However, the university withheld […]
Hugs from behind. A female student being called a “sexual animal.” Breast-groping. References to pole dancing and “sugar daddies.” An alleged sexual assault. Those are just a few of the accusations uncovered in a revealing set of documents released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison paid out more than $500,000 to settle sexual harassment and […]
When a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student accused her supervisor of alleged drunken texting, campus officials disagreed over whether the behavior was sexual harassment, with the Office of Equity & Diversity Services finding a violation of the discriminatory conduct policy and Provost Johannes Britz – who has the final say – ruling otherwise. Internal documents obtained by […]
Two of the more than 30 sexual harassment complaints against faculty and staff that UW-Milwaukee hasn’t released were lodged against UWM police sergeants, and the lurid accusations resulted in warring decisions between the Office of Equity and Diversity Services (EDS) and provost, who found that one of the EDS decisions was riddled with factual errors […]