“Survivors have waited decades for the truth, and this report does not deliver the transparency or accountability they deserve. After more than two years, the findings read less like a full investigation and more like a book report – largely summarizing information that was already public while leaving unanswered the central questions about the decades of inaction and institutional failures in the years that followed Robert. Hadden’s removal from the university.

This report confirms what survivors have been saying for years: the systems at Columbia failed, and the institution prioritized protecting itself over protecting patients. Complaints against Hadden were not taken seriously, and the university failed to act when warning signs emerged. For years, survivors have also described how Columbia intimidated and harassed those who came forward and failed to take meaningful responsibility for what happened.

The investigation itself is strikingly narrow. While Columbia may not have written the report, it set the scope for the investigation and funded it – including the decision to limit the review to events through 2012.

Time and again, meaningful progress in this case has occurred only after external pressure from survivors, journalists, and public officials. Columbia must stop approaching this crisis as a reputational problem to manage and start treating it as a moral obligation to confront. Survivors deserve full transparency and real accountability for the decisions and failures that allowed this abuse to continue for decades and for the subsequent cover-up that followed.

I spoke with Acting President Shipman today and made clear that this report cannot be the end of Columbia’s action on this issue. It does not come close to meeting the expectations of survivors and the broader community for accountability and meaningful repair.”