William Paterson University has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated Title IX by failing to investigate a report that a student was raped.

The university finalized an agreement March 1 to settle a suit that was filed in federal court in Newark on behalf of Cherelle Jovanna Locklear. The 21-year-old student committed suicide in her residence hall at the school in November 2015.

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