The Univ. ombudsmens’ office should be more widely known of by students
By Paige Brown of the Red & Black Editorial Board
The University (of Georgia) is creating a group consisting of students, faculty, staff and outside professionals to evaluate how discrimination and harassment complaints have been handled by the University’s ombudspersons and Equal Opportunity Office since 2008.
...There should be a greater effort by the University to promote awareness about the existence of the ombudspersons and Equal Opportunity Office and a greater effort to mitigate the culture of silence surrounding sexual harassment reports.
The Red & Black understands that publicizing these offices might make it look like sexual harassment is a widespread problem at the University, and that does not reflect well on the institution.
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