Teaching assistants often remain silent when sexual harassment comes from the students they teach. Hill Street Studios / Getty Images November 25, 2020 This type of sexual harassment on campus often goes overlooked Sarah Ives, City College of San Francisco and Ann E. Bartos, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Sexual harassment on campus often casts students as targets of their instructors. Researchers have found that it happens the other way around, too.