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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

More Bad PR

Inside Higher Ed continues - with a very lengthy article - to discuss a case of a UCLA History Dept. faculty member who was penalized (too mildly students and other faculty complain) for sexual harassment:

Should a professor who can’t be trusted to be alone with students be trusted to teach at all? Students at the University of California at [sic] Los Angeles say no, and they’re protesting the university’s decision to allow a professor accused of serial sexual harassment and assault to return to campus, despite a university agreement that stipulates he must leave his door open when meeting with students, among other requirements...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/05/ucla-students-and-faculty-protest-return-professor-accused-sexual-assault-and

But it could be worse. Old timers will remember Tallman Trask, a VC at UCLA in the 1970s and 1980s who is now having his problems at Duke:
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/04/05/apology-duke-sit-continues

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