Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as though they addressed the lunacy surrounding false accusations and the lives which can be ruined by them.

Jake New of Inside Higher Ed reported.

Summit on Sexual Assault

A leading forensic consultant urged representatives from more than 60 colleges and universities gathered here Monday to acknowledge that they’ve made mistakes in handling campus sexual assaults and to apologize publicly to student survivors.

“We must apologize for causing that harm,” David Lisak, the consultant and clinical psychologist, said. “And that apology must mean something.”

Lisak is one of the many speakers discussing sexual assault this week at a summit hosted and organized by Dartmouth College — an institution that is no stranger to criticism about how it has addressed sexual violence. The college is one of 67 institutions under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for possible Title IX violations related to sexual assaults.

Student unrest about a variety of issues, including campus sexual assaults, culminated in protests on the Dartmouth campus this year, and student groups warned prospective students via advertisements on social media that Dartmouth had a “rape problem.” Applications to the highly selective college fell 14 percent, a drop college officials blamed in part on its reputation for rowdiness and sexual assault.

Declaring “enough is enough,” Phil Hanlon, who became president of Dartmouth last summer, promised in April to rein in the excessive drinking and sexual misconduct he said was taking place on campus. In June, Dartmouth toughened its sexual misconduct policies, making expulsion the mandatory punishment for certain types of sexual assault.

“I consider being Dartmouth’s president to be the pinnacle of my career, but there’s a few aspects of this job I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” Hanlon said Monday. “That’s learning that a student has been assaulted or harmed.”