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TABLE 1. UNIVERSITIES AMONG THE TOP following the release of annual reports (e.g., ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
100 U.S. GEOSCIENCE UNIVERSITIES THAT Yale shared that their reported complaints had This is School of Ocean and Earth Science and
HAVE PUBLICLY RELEASED REPORTS Technology contribution no. 10973. Funding was
ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT THAT MEET doubled), and this can draw unwanted media provided by NSF #1565950. This manuscript bene-
THE NASEM (2018) CRITERIA attention. However, such a reporting increase fited from constructive feedback provided by
Ranking Name of Institution can and should be viewed positively, because M. Grabowski.
1 University of Colorado Boulder greater awareness of resources and support
5 Columbia University in the City of New York AC for victims encourages reporting (Davila IV REFERENCES CITED
6 The University of Texas at Austin and Steinkamp, 2019). Similarly, Stanford Association of American Universities (AAU), 2015,
7 Yale University AC
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology AC provost Persis Drell shared, “It is also my AAU Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sex-
9 Stanford University AC hope that by making surveys and reports vis- ual Misconduct, https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/
10 University of California, Los Angeles AC ible and accessible we will encourage anyone aau-climate-survey-sexual-assault-and-sexual
14 University of Michigan AC experiencing unwanted sexual conduct to -misconduct-2015 (accessed 4 May 2020).
18 University of California, Davis Clery Act, 1990, Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Cam-
19 Princeton University come forward so that it can be addressed” pus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statis-
20 University of California, Irvine (Drell, 2019). tics Act of 1990, 20 U.S.C. §1092(f).
24 Cornell University AC Of the 60+ NASEM Action Collaborative Davila IV, J., and Steinkamp, A., 2019, Sexual mis-
26 University of California, Santa Cruz AC conduct complaints doubled since 2017: Yale
29 The University of Iowa institutions, 38 are among the top 100 Daily News, https://yaledailynews.com/blog/
34 Johns Hopkins University AC geoscience universities. Of those 38, 19 2019/ 09/20/ sexual -misconduct -complaints
41 Purdue University AC have released detailed sexual misconduct -doubled -since-2017/ (accessed 4 May 2020).
42 The University of Chicago AC reports since January 2019. Since joining
43 Brown University Drell, P., 2019, 2018–19 Title IX/Sexual Harass-
49 Indiana University the Action Collaborative, several universi- ment Report: https://provost.stanford.edu/2019/
54 University of Alaska Fairbanks AC ties have pledged to publish reports within 12/ 02/ 2018 -19-title -ix-sexual-harassment -report/
62 The University of North Carolina at Chapel the coming year. (accessed 4 May 2020).
Hill National Academies of Sciences Engineering and
70 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville AC Medicine (NASEM), 2018, Sexual harassment
90 University of Missouri A CALL TO ACTION of women: Climate, culture, and consequences
93 Northwestern University AC To prevent sexual harassment, higher in academic sciences, engineering, and medi-
96 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute education institutions must be perceived to cine: Washington, D.C., National Academies
98 University of Rochester
be intolerant of such harassment. Informing Press, https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24994/ sexual
AC—denotes schools that are NASEM 2019 Action -harassment-of-women-climate-culture-and
Collaborative members. the campus community of sexual harass- -consequences -in-academic (accessed 4 May
ment allegations, how these claims have 2020).
been handled, and the outcomes of these
TABLE 2. UNIVERSITIES AMONG THE TOP claims clearly communicates that sexual NASEM, 2019, Action Collaborative on Preventing
100 U.S. GEOSCIENCE UNIVERSITIES THAT Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Wash-
HAVE PUBLICLY RELEASED REPORTS ON harassment is not tolerated (NASEM, 2018). ington, D.C., National Academies Press, https://
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT THAT PARTIALLY Such reports also hold universities account- www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/action
ADDRESS THE NASEM (2018) CRITERIA able for upholding the policies they have put -collaborative-on-preventing-sexual-harassment
Ranking Name of Institution -in-higher-education (accessed 4 May 2020).
in place to protect their communities. We
3 University of California, Berkeley AC are therefore issuing a call to action for all Nature Index, 2019, 2019 tables: Institutions—Earth &
15 Harvard University AC environmental sciences—academic, https://www
16 University of Maryland, College Park universities, and particularly those 100 top .natureindex.com/annual-tables/ 2019/ institution/
31 Duke University AC geoscience universities, to follow the lead academic/earth-and -environmental/ countries
36 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State of the top ten geoscience universities and -United%20States%20of%20America%20(USA)
University (accessed 4 May 2020).
39 University of California, Santa Barbara AC Action Collaborative members to produce Smith, S.A., 2016, Rip Van Winkle and the Pump-
51 Michigan State University AC such annual reports. The power is in the kin Lantern: Self-published, 254 p.
99 University of Montana hands of the institution to pave the way for
AC—denotes schools that are NASEM 2019 Action a future where fears of discrimination or Manuscript received 22 apr. 2020
Collaborative members. harassment no longer impede success. Manuscript accepted 28 apr. 2020

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