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Incident 8649 - Resolved

Role: Faculty
Position: Emeritus Professor
Discipline: Life Sciences
Specific Discipline: Forestry
Outcome Year: 2021
Outcome Category: Honor Revoked
Quote: "A retired emeritus professor at Michigan State University was stripped of his title several years after being found responsible for sexual misconduct.

James Kielbaso, a former professor emeritus in the Department of Forestry, was found in 2018 to have made inappropriate comments and unwanted sexual advances toward a student.

Kielbaso kept his emeritus status until recently, when it was revoked because of the sexual misconduct finding. "
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