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Concordia University defends handling of sexual misconduct complaint
MONTREAL — Concordia University is defending the way it investigates sexual misconduct allegations against its faculty after a former student accused the school of mishandling her complaint.
University spokeswoman Fiona Downey said Thursday that the Education Department assured the school it was properly following a 2017 law governing how post-secondary institutions handle such complaints.
But Ibi Kaslik, a novelist and University of Toronto instructor, accused Concordia of not treating her complaint properly and keeping her largely in the dark as it investigated a teacher in the English department. She says the teacher was sexually inappropriate towards her when she was his student at the school in the 1990s.
Kaslik said she discovered the teacher was exonerated by the university after a journalist contacted her Tuesday. She told The Canadian Press she was “merely solicited for information and then denied participation in any kind of justice” during Concordia’s investigation into its faculty member. “It’s absurd and not justice at all,” she said.