Eleven staff members – including an associate dean – at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) have been accused of sexual harassment since 2014, according to an open records request filed by Media Milwaukee, although the number rises to 18 when you count cases labeled as harassment and discrimination. Documents obtained by Media Milwaukee through open records […]
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 […]
Milwaukee Public Schools does not know how many sexual harassment and sexual assault complaints have been made against MPS employees because it does not keep centralized records of the cases. MPS could not produce the overall number of complaints in response to a Media Milwaukee open records request seeking the numbers since 2014. According to […]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student news website Media Milwaukee won a 2017-18 Open Records “Scoop of the Year” award from the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council. Media Milwaukee was awarded the “Scoopee” on March 8 for its investigation into dozens of sexual harassment and assault allegations on the UWM campus. Media Milwaukee is the only […]
New details obtained by Media Milwaukee show that UW-Milwaukee employees have been accused in complaints of allegations such as engaging in non-consensual sexual intercourse with a student, taking pictures of students’ “backsides,” making inappropriate sexual comments, and having a sexual relationship with a student and then giving the student a higher grade as a result. […]
The Milwaukee Police Department will not release what they call “sexual assault records” involving a prominent professor to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalist Talis Shelbourne, and she has now filed an open records complaint with the state Attorney General seeking their release. In addition, Shelbourne filed a second open records complaint, this one against UWM, […]
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 […]
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone has declined to be interviewed by a Media Milwaukee student journalist about sexual harassment and assault on campus following two weeks of investigative reporting into such cases at UWM, choosing instead to respond with a campus-wide update. The email headlined “Chancellor’s Update: Efforts to Combat and Prevent Sexual Harassment and Misconduct” […]
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 […]