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Dalhousie to address all sexism report recommendations within 2 years

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WATCH ABOVE: The Dalhousie Dentistry Scandal made headlines across the country; since news of the sexist online posts were made public the school has had an independent report with recommendations on change. Monday school senators heard what progress has been made. Rebecca Lau reports – Feb 22, 2016

The president of Dalhousie University says the school is committed to addressing all of the recommendations in a report into the Facebook scandal at its dentistry school within two years.

Richard Florizone told the university’s senate Monday that there are a lot of “moving pieces” and administrators don’t have all of the answers yet.

READ MORE: Gender-based violence the focus of 16 day campaign at Dalhousie University

The independent report released last June called on the university to overhaul its culture and the way it handles complaints of sexism.

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The panel’s investigation was announced after 13 fourth-year male students at Dalhousie’s dentistry school were suspended for being members of a Facebook page that contained sexually violent content about their female classmates.

WATCH: Dal senate hears from task force on misogyny, sexism and homophobia. Alexa McLean reports.

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Tom Boran, the dean of the faculty of dentistry, says the faculty is working to improve communications with students in order to make them feel safer and more comfortable in coming to administrators when they have complaints.

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Boran says the faculty is also updating its curriculum to promote more diversity and inclusion.

At least five of the senators who attended Monday’s meeting expressed concern beforehand that they were not given any documents ahead of the presentation, which left them unprepared to ask meaningful questions.

With Global News files

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