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“The board has a paramount responsibility to ensure the safety of our students and our employees at every institution.”
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Sexual Misconduct, Employment References, and Hiring in Higher Education: Is it Time for the Duty or Care to Evolve?<\/em>
By Neal Schlavensky
August 30, 2019<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Law Review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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Stop Passing the Harasser<\/h3>\n

Background<\/h4>\n

The #MeToo movement put the national spotlight on sexual misconduct.\u00a0 No group, organization, or industry was immune to victims providing narratives of sexual misconduct, including higher education.\u00a0 In 2018, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an article examining the complaints of employee sexual misconduct at UW System campuses between 2014 and 2017.\u00a0 The article reported that “UW students accuse teachers of sexual harassment in more than half of all campuses cases”.<\/a><\/p>\n

The UW System Board of Regents took action after national headlines exposed two UW System employees who were hired at other universities after having sexually harassed women without appropriate reference check or disclosure protocols in place.\u00a0 The Board passed resolution 11038<\/a>, which required the adoption of new policies on documenting and disclosing sexual misconduct.\u00a0 The resolution signaled the Board\u2019s strong commitment to combating sexual misconduct and maintaining safety across all campuses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Media Highlights UW System’s “Pass the Harasser” Policy<\/h3>\n

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\u2018Pass the Harasser\u2019 Is Higher Ed\u2019s Worst-Kept Secret. How Can Colleges Stop Doing It?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By Sarah Brown and Katherine Mangan,\u00a0 June 27, 2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reference Checks Ahead<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By Colleen Flaherty,\u00a0 June 27, 2019<\/p>\n

No More Passing the Harasser<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By Colleen Flaherty, September 25, 2018<\/p>\n

UW schools to share personnel files with each other, state agencies as soon as January 2019<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By Kelly Meyerhofer, August 22, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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Personnel File and Reference Check Resources<\/a><\/h3>

UPS Operational Policy\u00a0HR13: Personnel Files\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and UPS Operational Policy\u00a0TC 1:\u00a0 Recruitment Policies\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Steps taken by UW System to Change the Policies<\/h3>

Stop Passing the Harasser<\/h4>

Guidance and Background Information on Policy Implementation pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span>\r\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cfct-can-haz-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1351\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}