Dive Brief:

• Six women with ties to the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Boulder have released a statement that describes the harm the release of a sexual harassment report has had on faculty and students.
• The women say that it's a small number of men in the department responsible for the behavior described in the report and that the report may damage the reputations of innocent faculty members and harm the future of graduate students.
• The women specifically say that they believe their non-tenured colleagues, their graduate students, and most of their tenured colleagues are not guilty of the conduct the report describes.

Dive Insight:

Many women in the department said they were reluctant to talk about the report for fear of coming across as either completely endorsing or rejecting its contents. One of the women behind the statement said: "We released it because we didn't want innocent, vulnerable people to have their reputations smeared."