UW-Madison Releases Sexual Harassment, Assault Complaints

Hugs from behind. A female student being called a “sexual animal.” Breast-groping. References to pole dancing and “sugar daddies.” An alleged sexual assault. Those are just a few of the accusations uncovered in a revealing set of documents released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

UW-Madison paid out more than $500,000 to settle sexual harassment and other alleged misconduct claims against employees in the past 10 years, the records, obtained by Media Milwaukee through an open records request, show.  In 2017, an academic staff member was accused of sexually assaulting a student and was terminated. In another case involving a teaching assistant, a student alleged to campus authorities, “I am angry, concerned and appalled that he is still TAing. He is preying on young women and is a predator.”

Read the documents and our full report here.