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TexasTowelie

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Mon Aug 22, 2016, 05:32 AM Aug 2016

For graduate students at UW-Madison, sexual harassment sometimes comes from faculty

Starting this month, all UW-Madison graduate students and new students in the university’s professional schools will take part in mandatory sexual assault and harassment education programs.

Before the end of the year, faculty and staff members across the University of Wisconsin System could be required to receive similar sexual misconduct training as well.

The new initiatives are among the responses to a 2015 survey that found more than one in five women graduate and professional students who experienced sexual harassment at UW-Madison said the perpetrator was a professor.

Graduate students were also less likely than their undergraduate counterparts to know about campus resources to address sexual misconduct, according to the survey.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/for-graduate-students-at-uw-madison-sexual-harassment-sometimes-comes/article_25e516dd-9c48-5a0e-9d27-56a1978d1c78.html

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