The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights settled with Minot State University after the college was found in violation of Title IX, the department reported Thursday in a news release.
The department found that the North Dakota institution did not process a former student’s complaint that she was sexually assaulted by a professor there over a two-year period. The Office for Civil Rights found that Minot State did not address the effects of the hostile environment that the student reported.
The department also found that Minot State’s failure to coordinate with law-enforcement personnel led to other Title IX investigations. One of four sexual-harassment complaints reported to campus-security officers led the university to open a Title IX investigation.
Under Minot State’s agreement with the Office for Civil Rights, the university must comply with many provisions, including offering the student counseling, developing a way to document complaints, and submitting for the OCR’s approval copies of all sexual-assault grievances filed during the academic years spanning 2015 to 2018.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/education-department-resolves-sexual-assault-case-with-minot-state/112736