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How hiring policies can help end workplace harassment

US institutions and states are revamping hiring practices in an attempt to increase transparency about past misconduct in academia.
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In 2015, an assistant dean at a University of Wisconsin campus resigned following allegations that he had sexually harassed a campus employee. During the next two years, he took similar jobs at two other universities, neither of which learnt of the investigation or its findings during reference checks. He eventually resigned from the second position, which was at another of the 26 campuses of the University of Wisconsin system, after former colleagues contacted the institution about the original harassment investigation.

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Nature 609, 1063-1065 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03040-9

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