University administrators are panicking about the fact that it has become more difficult to hide information about campus sexual assaults. And the second thing a panicked administrator does – after firing whoever leaked the public records – is look for a consultant to paper things over.
Sure enough, the market for Title IX and sexual assault prevention consultants is booming. As in any boom, the credentials of these new entrants can be astonishingly thin and their motives suspect.
The Huffington Post has a report from Tyler Kingkade on what UO Professor Jennifer Freyd and a group of other researchers are doing to try and keep things honest – starting with a free and open-source alternative to AAU President Hunter Rawlings III’s expensive and intentionally crippled “Campus Climate” survey.
This is what universities are supposed to be about – creating knowledge, and making it freely available.
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