#FocalPoint: In January 2020, the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School provided musicology administrators with a department review based, in part, on a survey of doctoral students. The report revealed multiple concerns of musicology faculty engaging in verbal abuse, contributing to a “troublesome climate and culture” and significantly below average graduation rates for over two decades. A copy of this review has been obtained by The Michigan Daily. “Students indicated a sense of belonging … (that) is the lowest of all programs in the humanities and the arts,” the report said. “Your students painted an alarming image of (the) program climate.” The report noted that these scores had dropped in the four years since Rackham’s previous review in 2015 of the musicology department. A Daily investigation into the musicology department climate found numerous previously undisclosed allegations of unprofessional conduct against musicology professor Louise Stein and the department’s c...