Penn State Scandal Pushes Other IHEs To Review Their Policies

As college campuses across the region reopen for the second semester, an issue front and center for many is making sure their schools are protected from having a child sex-abuse scandal like the one that rocked Penn State to its core last fall. Area colleges reported that they were reviewing their policies, providing training to employees on handling complaints of abuse, and reinforcing laws and procedures that require employees to report abuse. "Anything like this that happens on one campus causes all of us to reconsider how we would handle something like that or how we're handling things to prevent something like that," said Sharon Latchaw Hirsh, president of Rosemont College. "It was something that you really couldn't ignore." Read more at:
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