The University of Rochester will pay $9.4 million in a settlement agreement announced Friday with nine former professors and students who sued the institution in 2017 over its handling of sexual harassment complaints.  The parties released a joint statement, thanking ...

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The university has struck back. In a 41-page response to a federal lawsuit regarding its handling of sexual harassment complaints about a professor, the University of Rochester has submitted a motion to dismiss the suit. The suit, filed in December ...

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Complainants in a sexual abuse case at the University of Rochester are included among the many women and two men featured in Time magazine’s Person of the Year profile for 2017.  The “person” in this case is a group called ...

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