Inside Higher Ed today carries a story about the firing of a tenured UC-Riverside English professor for sexual harassment. The story indicates that the Regents approved the firing, although apparently not unanimously. (Such matters are taken up in closed sessions.) Apparently, a Senate campus committee was unpersuaded of the evidence, although the English Dept. seems to be persuaded.
The case is now in the public domain and will undoubtedly be entering the external court system with the issue being - at least in part - the provision (or not) of due process. For more, see
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/03/why-did-uc-riverside-fire-tenured-professor
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