Rhonda Davis: NSF rule could restrict grants for schools floundering on sexual harassment

NSF is accepting public feedback on its new rule to limit grant funding to institutions failing to thoroughly investigate sexual harassment until May 4.

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Colleges and universities are anything but ivory towers free of sexual harassment and intimidation. Now the National Science Foundation wants to make sure its grants do not go to investigators who might be engaging in sexual harassment, or to institutions who let it go on. With more on the new proposed rule, Rhonda Davis, head of diversity and inclusion at the NSF, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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