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The University of Rochester will pay $9.4 million to nine former professors and students in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences who sued the institution in 2017 over its handling of sexual harassment claims against linguist Florian Jaeger, according to Science.
“We consider it a major victory for all of the faculty and students who were harassed,” says plaintiff and developmental neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon, now of Carnegie Mellon University, in remarks to Science. “It’s a significant settlement. I think it’s going to have a really powerful impact on how seriously universities take women who come forward with complaints of sexual harassment. This is something that universities will notice.”
Cantlon tells Nature that when people come forward with complaints of sexual harassment, “it’s important to take them seriously and to find resolution for them that doesn’t require people to seek justice through the court system.”
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