Members of two U.S. House panels examined allegations of sexual assault, bullying and retaliation at the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education-operated Haskell Indian Nations University during a hearing this week.
Haskell, a Lawrence, Kansas, school that is the only four-year college operated by the bureau, has come under scrutiny over its response to a range of allegations from students, which were documented in a scathing report from the Bureau of Indian Education, an agency within the U.S. Interior Department.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a federal FOIA suit, the bureau initially released an unrelated report in November 2023.