The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Thursday that it’s demanding the University of Southern California (USC) to make “sweeping changes” to its Title IX procedures because the school failed to protect hundreds of female students from alleged sex abuses by an on-campus physician.
The announcement comes days after the Los Angeles-based school settled a lawsuit against George Tyndall, who was accused of preying on female student-patients over his 28-year tenure at USC Engemann Student Health Center as a full-time gynecologist. Tyndall continued to maintain his innocence, despite that more than 400 woman have accused him of sex offenses since May 2018, when it was made public that the OCR had been investigating him.
