Recent and ongoing federal reviews of university sexual misconduct grievance procedures by the US department of education's office for civil rights include such prestigious schools as Harvard, Yale and the University of Virginia.
She founded Know Your IX in 2013, a resource for students to demand that their universities' sexual misconduct policies (and the enforcement of said policies) comply with Title IX, a federal statute prohibiting gender discrimination in universities that receive federal funding.
The fraternity has been banned from campus activities until 2016 for violating the university's sexual misconduct policy.
All four were expelled from the school on May 2 for what the university called sexual misconduct, their lawyers said.
"Consistent with the university's Academic Misconduct policy, a faculty committee conducted a thorough investigation into Professor Wansink's research.
Last year, in response to the new guidance from the Office of Civil Rights, the university took sexual misconduct cases out of the student-run system, and they are now heard by mixed panels.
If a student submits work that is shown to comprise, in whole or in part, material that is not their own independent work then that student will normally face a range of penalties, administered by their university, for academic misconduct.
In an investigation after Markingson's death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the university of any misconduct and said there was no evidence that Markingson could not voluntarily consent to the study.
In December 2014, Doe was expelled from GMU for violating the university's sexual misconduct policy.
Brodsky, then a Yale undergrad, was one of 16 students to file a complaint in 2011, leading to a federal investigation of the university's sexual misconduct policies.
