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Working with `co-guest editor' who has subjected me to harassment as postdoc mentor
Very long post alert!
Background: I have a complicated situation and need advice about how to deal with it. I had joined as a postdoc with a faculty member (a senior professor) in an esteemed research ...
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How to professionally deal with sexual harassment in academia
I am a first year PhD student, and there is an older (by which I mean further ahead in his PhD) student who has been rather unperturbed by me asking him to stop flirting with me. This has been going ...
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Toxic, harassing lab environment
I have just started a research position (around 2.5 months ago) at a top-10 university. I am having my own funding and was initially quite excited about the opportunity, and did and do love my project....
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How to deal with sexual harassment by a senior colleague without jeopardizing my tenure case?
I apologize in advance that I cannot write about details, as they contain identifying information about the senior colleague in question.
The low-down is that I am a tenure-track professor at a US ...
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A female professor was found responsible for sexual harassment – what can happen to the signatories of a letter in support of her?
The New York Times article reported a female professor at New York University was found to be responsible for sexual harassment of a male student.
There's a letter of support for this professor, sent ...
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Allegations of harassment by a faculty member and reporting?
This issue is about a university in a third-world country.
I friend of mine, "Zelda," is a faculty member at a reputable university. During one of her sittings with an undergrad student, &...
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How to stop sexual harassment by teacher? [closed]
I'm a student in India. My music teacher was kicked out of the school about 1 month ago due to sexual misconduct.
Today, he messaged me on Instagram with a fake ID and started talking nastily to me ...
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How to avoid being falsely accused of harassment by a student?
I am a junior faculty member and as part of my work I have to supervise students. I am required by the University to have one-on-one meetings with them every week to check their progress and give ...
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How to create an environment in which students can report teacher-student sexual harassment?
I teach physics at a community college in California. A series of female students have told me about sexual harassment by the same tenured male math instructor. Two such incidents went like this.
one ...
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How to deal with an advisor who wants a "friendlier" relationship with me than I do?
I work as an assistant at a university in Australia. I joined the team consisting of my current advisor and his two PhD students. The other group members are men and they have a co-worker-like ...
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