Campus groups who focus on preventing and addressing sexual harassment said they hope the release of Title IX reports by the University of California will lead to more transparency. Read more...
Photo: Student groups, such as Bruins Against Sexual Harassment and Bruin Consent Coalition, have protested past decisions made by UCLA about sexual harassment cases. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
UCLA had 25 cases of faculty, staff and employees who sexually harassed university community members between 2013 and 2016, the second-highest number among the 10 UC campuses, according to documents released by University of California campuses Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: About 35 percent of complainants in the 113 sexual harassment case reports released by individual University of California campuses Tuesday were students. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 10 p.m. A UCLA professor emeritus was one of at least 25 UCLA faculty, staff and contractors who violated sexual misconduct policy within the past three years, according to documents received by The Daily Californian. Read more...
Students are encouraging the university to adopt a more democratic review process for sexual assault cases. The undergraduate student government passed a resolution last Tuesday that recommends the University of California Office of the President make its peer review committee, which intervenes if the university fails to respond adequately to allegations, more diverse. Read more...
Photo: Members of Bruins Against Sexual Harassment protested outside professor Gabriel Piterberg’s class at the beginning of winter quarter, and hope the USAC resolution will change how sexual violence and sexual harassment cases are settled in the future. (Jintak Han/Assistant photo editor)
A new state law that prohibits the use of state funds for travel to states with anti-LGBT laws has affected plans for academic conferences, collaboration and athletic games at public universities. Read more...
University of California representatives are working to include certain transgender surgeries in student health insurance coverage. Attendees at the UC Student Health Insurance Plan meeting Tuesday discussed voting to add breast augmentation surgery for male-to-female transgender students to the UC SHIP plan, said David DiTullio, an Executive Oversight Board graduate representative for the Student Health Advisory Committee. Read more...
Photo: The University of California Student Health Insurance Plan, which has an office in the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, may soon include top surgeries for male-to-female transgender students in its plan. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
A tuition-free higher education would cost the median-income California family an additional $48 per year, according to a report released by a higher education advocacy coalition last month. Read more...
