Cornell is the latest university under national scrutiny, this time over its response to a former student’s sexual assault allegations. The New York Times examined the crisis playbook schools tend to follow, and Red Banyan CEO Evan Nierman explained where it breaks down.
Nierman said moving too slowly is how colleges tend to “botch” their responses. “We live in a rapid-fire world where reputations are made and destroyed in moments, not months.”
He warned that internal reviews and committees, the go-to move for many schools, are “almost always criticized for being inadequate, slow and unresponsive.” In the meantime, schools are left “taking it on the chin day after day.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/cornell-crisis-playbook-universities-colleges.html