Incidents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Total: 4
Incident 8841
Status:
Resolved
Person:
David Sabatini
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"
"The institute in December stripped Lewin of his emeritus title"
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Incident 7425
Status:
Resolved
Person:
James R. Tewhey
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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