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Title IX investigation into Syracuse University closed after student withdraws complaint

Colin Davy | Assistant Photo Editor

Representatives from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights visited SU in January to gather information for an investigation.

A Title IX investigation into Syracuse University has been closed because the complaint was withdrawn, according to an email obtained by The Daily Orange.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights notified SU in January that an investigation had been opened after a graduate student filed a complaint alleging that she was subjected to a hostile work environment in her academic department.

But the graduate student has since withdrawn the complaint and the OCR has closed the investigation, SU’s Interim Associate Vice President and Chief Equal Opportunity Officer Sheila Johnson-Willis told university leadership in the email that was obtained by The Daily Orange.

A separate federal investigation into SU for its handling of a sexual assault case remains open. That case was opened in June 2016 after a former student filed a Title IX complaint alleging that the university failed to “respond promptly or equitably” to a report of sexual assault.







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