By: Anonymous

Anonymous
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:12:24 +0000

It also needs to have faculty misconduct with students addressed. There ARE professors sleeping with their students/employees. Not just in the past but in the present as well. They are even promoting those students that they are sleeping with to move them ahead. This is damaging on many levels. These professors are then rewarded for their actions with promotions and raises when they should be fired. Young women entering the college scene THINK they are mature enough to understand the idea of a relationship with older faculty (men and women included). They are not. A 20-something student may be of legal age for consent but compared to a 40-something professor there is a huge gap in emotional and psychological development. College is often their first real experience of life unsheltered and what seems like a good idea at the time leads to many problems in the future.

It harms the reputation of these students. They are not viewed as valued scholars but individuals who slept their way through college to graduate. Any scholarships, grants, job interviews, or school interviews awarded to these students on recommendations by the faculty they are having sexual intercourse with are not fairly awarded. They are judged harshly by their peers and any positive impact they could have had on the community at large is discounted as only the extended ideas of whichever professor they had a relationship with.

This calls into question the integrity of the professors committing the acts, the departments that ignore the problem even when it is exposed, and the reputation of the University at large. It sets back the progress that women have made in the academic community to a time where professors were known to sleep with their secretaries.

It is degrading to these young people and unethical on the part of the professors. Harsh measures should be taken against those that have violated the policies. They are there for the protection of students and faculty alike. Those professors that snub their noses at the rules should be dismissed without a positive reference. Entering into any kind of sexual relationship with a student/employee creates the persona of a predator and they should be treated as such. The students that enter into these relationships should have their degrees placed on hold while their grades are reevaluated by a panel from other departments. It is the only way to ensure that the grades are truly earned rather than earned on their backs.