Insidevandy.com reports that Vanderbilt University is the latest academic institution to become the subject of a Title IX complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Similar complaints have been brought recently against Yale, the University of North Carolina, and Amherst College.
A group of six students — four current and two former — Thursday filed federal Title IX complaints against Vanderbilt University for the alleged “mistreatment of sexual assaults,” according to senior Sarah Beth O’Brien, one of the students who filed the complaints. The complaints were filed shortly after midnight Thursday morning to the Office for Civil Rights hosted under the United States Department of Education.
“As a group and as individuals, we decided to file complaints against the university on the grounds that the university created and perpetuated a hostile environment for us as well as the general student body,” O’Brien said in a statement to InsideVandy.com.
O’Brien, who was raped during her freshman year at Vanderbilt, said she and others have been afraid to come forward as a result of “horror stories” about the lengthy and painful process that the complainants claim are associated with reporting or sharing their stories with university resources…
Click here to Like The College Fix on Facebook / Twitter: @CollegeFix
Please join the conversation about our stories on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, MeWe, Rumble, Gab, Minds and Gettr.