The doctoral student, submitted in may 2018 complaint against her supervisor for sexual harassment, the outcome of the proceedings: At a Meeting yesterday Morning, your rector Andrea Schenker explained-Wicki personally, what measures has the University of Basel against the Professor. Previously, you had to tell the doctoral student.
“I’m glad we met. It was a very good conversation,” says the PhD student. “The rector regrets what happened to me and how the procedure is expired. You apologized to me.”
In the case of a measure, it was the written warning, which I communicated to the Professor in December itself, says the doctoral student. Not wool, the other measure they Express themselves publicly in detail. “The important thing for me is that I know now that the Uni has taken my complaint very seriously.”
The University confirmed the Meeting with the PhD student. A newly-appointed Commission on how to proceed in cases of sexual harassment had come to their first meeting from the last Thursday to the conclusion that “the legal leeway” to allow it to inform the PhD student, says spokesman Matthias Geering. “Further, the Commission is of the view that a process duration of six months is much too long and thus unacceptable.” I want to tell the rector to the candidate in the personal interview.
“Rapid
In the future,” will it make the Uni better. “A Person should have a contact person within the University that accepts the case the procedure is closely monitored and regularly with the Person is communicating,” says Geering. In order to ensure that the Person knows at any time how far the procedure had progressed. In addition, such procedures must be conducted “more quickly, because the burden for all the Parties to the proceedings is great”.
Until the fall of the University of Basel is now redesigned their regulations on the protection against sexual harassment. According to Matthias Geering of the proceedings against the Professor, has shown that “improvements are possible”. In a Mail to the doctoral student, he speaks of the “various deficiencies in the regulations”. As the “basellandschaftliche Zeitung” reported, the University’s administration and other Changes into account – so, for example, that the regulations will be extended to the issues of bullying and racism.
at the same time the Uni gets from the data protection officer of the Canton of Basel-city a legal opinion to clarify the question of the protection of privacy of the accused persons and the related public communication measures.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 26.02.2019, 12:14 PM
