By making the report public on January 31, 2014, the administration has indeed taken drastic action.
Your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not this drastic action will lead to the department's supposed recovery.
I would like to contribute my two cents to the wished-for recovery of the Department of Philosophy by undertaking to examine and discuss here two other points in the report.
(1) Among other things, the report says, "Some faculty are unaware of how much their incivility towards one another and other types of unprofessional behavior harm their graduate students."
Because "other types of unprofessional behavior" could include the report's allegations of inappropriate sexualized behavior discussed elsewhere in the report, I want to skip over this wording here and focus instead on the alleged incivility. Incidentally, I agree that inappropriate sexualized behavior is unacceptable.
Now, if certain faculty members engage in incivility towards one another, I can understand that their behavior might not edify their graduate students. But the report claims that their alleged incivility harms their graduate students. However, the authors of the report do not explain how this alleged harm to their graduate students comes about.
Moreover, the report explicitly claims that some of the faculty members involved in incivility are unaware of the alleged harm of their behavior on their graduate students.
Evidently, the faculty members in question are not setting a good example for their graduate students, and they are not aware that they are not setting a good example for them. Instead of edifying their graduate students, certain faculty are disedifying them, because the graduate students deem the faculty behavior to be unedifying. Clearly the graduate students would prefer to be edified by the faculty, instead of being disedified. So the expectations of the graduate students regarding faculty behavior are being disappointed.
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