The University of Virginia violated federal rules on sexual violence issues several times in recent years, failing to provide “prompt and equitable” responses to allegations of sexual assault, the U.S. Education Department said Monday. Virginia’s flagship public university fell short in its handling of 22 of 50 reports of sexual harassment from 2008 to 2012, the department said. Twenty-one of those reports alleged “sexual assault, some including rape and gang rape.” “In all of these cases, the university failed to investigate or otherwise determine what occurred,” a federal civil rights investigator wrote. The department also faulted U-Va. in some instances for not promptly investigating information in cases that involved campus fraternities, and it suggested that the university had not done enough to eliminate “a hostile environment” for some students affected by sexual violence cases.

September 21, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post