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Incidents at Florida Gulf Coast University

Total: 5


Incident 7336

Status: Resolved
Person: Rod Chesnutt
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Music
Outcome Year: 2017
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "The conductor of the Florida Gulf Coast University Wind Orchestra — who has been under investigation by the school for roughly two months — resigned his job last week. "

"Chesnutt "gave a general admission to several acts of misconduct,""

"In a later meeting with the school’s provost, he admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with the student while she was in his class."
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Incident 7335

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline: Criminology
Outcome Year: 2009
Outcome Category: Training / Counseling Required, Committed Suicide, Fine / Salary Reduction
Quote: "A Florida Gulf Coast University instructor has been suspended without pay for the remainder of the semester and ordered to attend counseling and sexual harassment training following a harassment investigation."

"An FGCU professor walked up to a waterfront bar Monday morning, greeted people nearby and then pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head."

Jeffrie Jinian, 42, an instructor and internship coordinator in the Department of Justice Studies"
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Incident 7334

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Assistant Professor
Discipline: Business
Specific Discipline: Resort and Hospitality Management
Outcome Year: 2009
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "Florida Gulf Coast University officials planned to fire a faculty member after finding sexually explicit images on his computer and evidence of phone charges to adult hotlines but he resigned before they had the chance.

Professor Steve Eisenberg, 48, resigned May 19 after university officials confronted him with more than 1,000 minutes of long-distance calls from his work phone to adult hotlines and more than 350 sexually explicit images on his work computer."
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Incident 7333

Status: Resolved
Person: Carl Wood
Role: Faculty
Position: Adjunct Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Languages
Outcome Year: 2008
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: "Florida Gulf Coast University fired an adjunct German language and literature professor last week following an internal sexual harassment investigation that determined he had inappropriate physical contact with a 28-year-old female graduate student.

Carl Wood, 67, made multiple unwelcome or offensive gestures toward the student during an all-day outing in November, including attempting to French kiss her twice when he dropped the woman off at her apartment, according to the investigation."
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Incident 7332

Status: Resolved
Role: Administrator
Position: President
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 2007
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "resigned as president of Florida Gulf Coast University because he had an inappropriate relationship with a female faculty member"
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