Table 6. Institutional response categories.

Coded Value	Assigned category	Example Responses
1	None	None; There were no consequences; Nothing was done to him; Disbelief; They said they couldn’t do anything about it; Nothing has been done; There was not enough evidence to pursue and it was dropped; They ignored it; They said I couldn’t be helped; Nothing; They said to ignore it; No formal response; No observed differences in authority after reporting of incidents
2	Did not report	No reporting system for faculty/grad student interactions at the time; Discouraged from reporting due to potential damage to my own career; Never reported it; I didn’t say anything; I did not report it; I did not report because I feared direct retribution; I never told anyone about this; Warned that it would get ugly if I filed a complaint so I didn’t; Not applicable as happened at conferences
3	Action taken	Title IX investigation; He was fired from his tenure position; There is supposedly “a file” on the incident somewhere; He was disciplined; This was enough to force the perpetrator to “retire” with immediate effect; He was removed from my tenure committee and was told to have no contact with me; Forced resignation
4	Unclear, Not sure	I heard stories about “talkings to” that he received but I don’t know; Dean collected information anonymously from myself and other victims; My hope is that this curbed his behavior significantly but I can’t know for sure; I think he was rebuked; No information whether action was taken; Unclear; Unknown; I think there was an investigation but I never heard of any results; They spoke with him beyond that none to my knowledge
5	Retaliation (against the respondent)	I was silenced and punished; Poorly handled title ix investigation where i was neglected by the staff; I was fired; Retaliation; termination after positive review and seizure of external research funds that I won; They began to exclude me
6	Other	Negotiated agreement between me and the harasser; A conversation with the harasser and with me about how to deal with each other; In process; Bathroom renovation over a year after the fact; There were conflicting responses from the faculty; I have not yet decided whether or not I want to move forward

Examples of statements, separated by semicolon (right), the assigned category by research team (middle), and coded value for analysis (left).