On Thursday, the Ohio State University announced that the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has begun investigating the allegations that former OSU physician Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, sexually abused students in his care.
The OCR oversees enforcement of Title IX, and is therefore looking to ensure that the university is “responding promptly and equitably to complaints and reports by former students.” The OCR’s Cleveland regional office will lead the investigation.
Strauss was employed at Ohio State from the mid-1970s through the 1990s, and reportedly abused hundreds of former students, including many student-athletes, predominantly wrestlers.