This is a timeline of all of the publicly reported academic sexual misconduct cases in the US. There is a total of 1030 reported cases from 1979 to 2020, as of April 1, 2020. Only cases with known outcomes are shown here (all cases in 2020, and a portion of cases in 2019 are still unresolved). Note that cases of sexual misconduct are likely much higher than what is officially reported to the institutions of origin. Reports of sexual harassment have steadily increased throughout the decades, with initial cases in the late 1970s. This is perhaps largely due to the passage of laws and public of court cases that set the stage for sexual harassment cases to come.