IHE has a useful summary of the findings (thanks to William Kidder for flagging this for me). The study suffers from a serious, and probably unavoidable, selection effect bias, unfortunately; as the IHE article notes:
Kidder and Cantalupo say their effort to inventory faculty-student harassment cases is the most comprehensive yet, taking data from news reports, federal civil rights investigations from the Education and Justice Departments, lawsuits by students alleging harassment, and lawsuits by tenure-track or tenured faculty professors fired over alleged harassment. The study is based on reports involving graduate students, who are, according to other data, more likely to be harassed by professors than are undergraduates (among whom peer-to-peer harassment is more commonly reported).
For data contained in media reports, the authors turned to the Not a Fluke webpage maintained by Julie Libarkin, a professor of geological sciences at Michigan State University. It includes only cases in which there’s been an institutional or legal finding of misconduct or a settlement, or a professor’s resignation (or death) during the review. That turned up 221 cases against faculty members at 210 institutions, the overwhelming majority of which occurred since 2000.
This was certainly a responsible way to proceed, but one strongly suspects that more serious forms of sexual harassment and serial sexual harassers are far more likely to turn up in the kind of data the authors used than the other kinds of sexual harassers that also populate academia and who probably pass "beneath the radar" of formal complaints, lawsuits, and media reports most of the time.
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