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Incident 9070 - Resolved

Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Life Sciences
Specific Discipline: Kinesiology
Outcome Year: 2013
Outcome Category: No Known Outcome for Respondent
Quote: "incident in 2013, when a different woman submitted a Title IX complaint against Berning..."

"65. Upon information and belief, NMSU, Wood, and the Doe Defendants substantiated that Berning engaged in sexual misconduct towards the female student in regard to the 2013 incident.
66. Upon information and belief, as dean of the relevant college, Defendant Morehead was notified of the incident outlined in the 2013 report, received a copy of the report of said incident, and coordinated with Wood, the Doe Defendants, NMSU and the Regents to formulate a respond thereto.
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68.
Following the 2013 incident, Berning was not subjected to meaningful discipline

or corrective action by any other Defendant despite the investigation having substantiating

extremely concerning sexualized behavior and misconduct towards a female student, including unwanted physical and sexual advances conducted in a locked faculty office."

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