I saw this yesterday and for some reason it has stuck with me, probably because it regards covering up an assault on a student by an instructor. It reminded me that we do not have any real idea of how often this happens due to instructors being permitted to move on.
I am not asking for anyone to prove or disprove that this happened. The question writer is the sibling of the instructor so obviously we don’t have the full story.
I am not really sure what I want from posting this. It left me unsettled and sad.
"…I recently found out that my brother was accused of sexual assault by a female undergraduate student.
The college rescinded his teaching contract, and basically told him that if he disappeared, no charges would be filed by the institution or the accuser. My brother didn’t fight it or get an attorney, he simply packed up and left town…"
“Several professors in the field said that Ms. Lopez’s charges should have come as no surprise to the university: As a tenured professor at Columbia University, Professor Pogge had been disciplined after similar accusations of sexual harassment — behavior Yale knew about when hiring him.”
"Wentworth’s dismissal comes on the heels of a number of sexual harassment scandals at UC Berkeley, many including high-profile faculty members… Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, who was found to have sexually harassed students, resigned in 2015 … The former dean of the UC Berkeley law school, Sujit Choudhry, also resigned from that position …
Most recently, in March, a former student filed a lawsuit against celebrated philosophy professor John Searle, alleging he sexually harassed her."
"The problem is that most of these perpetrators get away with their crimes, even in the rare instances when victims report it or speak publicly about it. …
I have enough sense that unpunished sexual violence perpetrated by faculty members is so rampant that I would venture to guess that we all know that guy – "