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Incidents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Total: 4


Incident 8841

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Life Sciences
Specific Discipline: Biology
Outcome Year: 2021
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "Professor Sabatini has stepped down from his tenured faculty position at MIT … without exercising his policy right to request that a faculty committee … review the recommendation to revoke tenure"
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Incident 7426

Status: Resolved
Person: Walter Lewin
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline: Physics
Outcome Year: 2015
Outcome Category: Honor Revoked
Quote: "MIT is indefinitely removing retired physics faculty member Walter Lewin’s online lectures from MIT OpenCourseWare and online MITx courses from edX, the online learning platform co-founded by MIT, following a determination that Dr. Lewin engaged in online sexual harassment in violation of MIT policies."

"The institute in December stripped Lewin of his emeritus title"
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Incident 7425

Status: Resolved
Role: Administrator
Position: Associate Dean
Discipline: Other
Specific Discipline: Residence and Campus Activities
Outcome Year: 1993
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "Associate Dean for Student Affairs James R. Tewhey resigned yesterday afternoon amid charges and countercharges of harassment"
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Incident 7424

Status: Resolved
Person: NA
Role: Department
Position:
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Literature
Outcome Year: 1991
Outcome Category: Monetary Settlement / Award
Quote: "A settlement has been quietly reached in a much-publicized lawsuit filed by a professor of literature against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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