ABSTRACT
Whenever faculty or administrators engage in destructive or indiscreet behavior with students or other employees, the institution automatically becomes responsible, but the task of "picking up the pieces and making shelter" assumed particular urgency with the enactment of laws prohibiting discrimination. Sexual harassment is an issue that involves human perceptions and interactions, so people and their individual needs and characteristics must always be the focal point. Collective agreement about institutional mission is a crucial step to eliminating sexual harassment. Methodology is associated and overlaps with mission. Institutional size undoubtedly affects efforts to understand and prevent harassment. Power inequalities between the genders are but one characteristic of academe's organizational maze. The literature on sexual harassment emphasizes the power discrepancy between professors and students, so few consider that despite the status they demand and receive, faculty are actually a subculture of the enormous operation that higher education has become.
