Today, for the first time ever, the Feds have released a complete list of schools under investigation for their (mis)handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.
Previously the Department of Education’s policy was to wait until someone asked about a specific school to confirm or deny whether there was any investigation, which obviously isn’t very efficient or transparent. The change is part of the ongoing push by the Obama Administration to combat sexual violence against women in college.
A complete list of the 55 schools nationwide currently under investigation, organized by state, is at the bottom of this post.
The Massachusetts schools under investigation (for our many Bay State readers) are: Amherst College, B.U., Emerson, Harvard (undergrad & law school), & UMass Amherst.
While I should note that these investigations may find the complaints without merit, I would also stress much more strongly that, in light of the notorious track record so many schools (including some of those Massachusetts schools I just mentioned) and the sheer volume of inquiries schools launch every year, it is probably far more likely that this is the tip of the problem iceberg rather than some false witch-hunt, for basically all the schools on this list.
Complete list via Boston.com:
AZ—Arizona State University
CA—Butte-Glen Community College District
CA—Occidental College
CA—University of California-Berkeley
CA—University of Southern California
CO—Regis University
CO—University of Colorado at Boulder
CO—University of Colorado at Denver
CO—University of Denver
CT—University of Connecticut
DC—Catholic University of America
FL—Florida State University
GA—Emory University
HI—University of Hawaii at Manoa
ID—University of Idaho
IL—Knox College
IL—University of Chicago
IN—Indiana University-Bloomington
IN—Vincennes University
MA—Amherst College
MA—Boston University
MA—Emerson College
MA—Harvard College
MA—Harvard University Law School
MA—University of Massachusetts-Amherst
MD—Frostburg State University
MI—Michigan State University
MI—University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
NC—Guilford College
NC—University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ND—Minot State University
NH—Dartmouth College
NJ—Princeton University
NY—Cuny Hunter College
NY—Hobart and William Smith Colleges
NY—Sarah Lawrence College
NY—Suny at Binghamton
OH—Denison University
OH—Ohio State University
OH—Wittenberg University
OK—Oklahoma State University
PA—Carnegie Mellon University
PA—Franklin and Marshall College
PA—Pennsylvania State University
PA—Swarthmore College
PA—Temple University
TN—Vanderbilt University
TX—Southern Methodist University
TX—The University of Texas-Pan American
VA—College of William and Mary
VA—University of Virginia
WA—Washington State University
WI—University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
WV—Bethany College
WV—West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
