Institutions of higher education (IHEs) are confronting a systemic challenge in which faculty or staff who have been found responsible for sexual or gender harassment are able to transition from one IHE to another without the new employer’s knowledge of prior misconduct. This is often known as “passing the harasser” and may enable known harassers to withdraw from ongoing investigations before a conclusion is reached and sanctions are enforced. This session will debut a paper by the Response Working Group of the Action Collaborative, entitled “Exploring Policies to Prevent ‘Passing the Harasser’ in Higher Education” which looks at the decision points associated with the development and implement of anti-passing-the-harasser policies that augment background checks and other information-gathering strategies during the hiring process. It will also feature a presentation from Boston University about their work with the Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM’s Ethical Transparency Tool (ETT), which is being piloted this year as a tool that IHEs can use to support their policies and procedures.