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node-commentary node-promoted node-published node-not-sticky author-2541 odd clearfix" id="node-commentary-16729"> <!-- --> <span property="dc:title" content="Sexual Harassment and Misconduct" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2018-09-25T00:00:00-04:00">September 25, 2018</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd" property="content:encoded"><p>To the Yale Community,</p> <p>Sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, deeply harms those who experience it and is incompatible with the trust, respect, and collaboration that are critical to the mission of an academic institution. As the vital national conversation about sexual misconduct continues to unfold across nearly every sector, I write to reaffirm that such behavior has no place on this or any other campus.</p> <p>In my career as a professor, dean, provost, and now university president, it is evident to me that the abuse of trust and violation of personhood that sexual misconduct represents is corrosive to the enterprise of discovery and the formation of community. It is vitally important that we uphold high standards of conduct at our university; these standards form the bedrock foundation of all that we aspire to be. 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