Dive Brief:

• Consultants investigating sexual harassment and bullying in the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Boulder received access to confidential files.
• School officials said the investigators signed a confidentiality agreement in order to access the files.
• One professor says the report that the investigators issued paints the whole department in a negative light, since incidents are described with few specifics.

Dive Insight:

Last week, a group of professors came forward to say that the release of the report harmed department faculty and graduate students, most of whom are innocent of the conduct addressed in the report. For its part, the school says it acted within the law by sharing the normally confidential files with investigators and by releasing the report.