Sabrina Karim
Role at the time: Cornell associate professor of government, writing a guest opinion
Condemned
Statement summary
Karim says Cornell must acknowledge institutional failure and pursue reform to rebuild trust.
“Second, rebuilding trust requires institutions to acknowledge failure. That does not mean prejudging every contested fact or assigning responsibility before an investigation is complete. It means recognizing when systems have not worked as they should. In recent weeks, Cornell and the District Attorney’s Office have become involved in reports about where responsibility for different aspects of this case lay. But this does little to rebuild public trust when the larger concern is that the system itself failed. Institutions earn credibility by demonstrating that they are capable of self-examination and correction.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Sabrina Karim calls for Cornell to rebuild institutional trustInstitutional failure, public engagement and policy reform
Karim's authored opinion criticizes Cornell's response and calls for reform alongside the outside review.
Why we used this label
The subject is Cornell's response to the allegations. Karim criticizes institutional failure and calls for acknowledgment and reform. Her refusal to prejudge individual guilt does not qualify her criticism of the response.