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Incidents at Rutgers University

Total: 5


Incident 8486

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline: Political Science
Outcome Year: 2019
Outcome Category: Retired
Quote: "A prominent Rutgers University political science professor under investigation for sexually harassing a graduate student nearly two decades ago retired earlier this month, a university spokeswoman confirmed."
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Incident 8143

Status: Ongoing
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Outcome Year: 2018
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Incident 8207

Status: Resolved
Person: James Goydos
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline: Medicine
Outcome Year: 2018
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: Accused of filming people in bathroom in workplace. "No longer employed". 160 count indictment
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Incident 8068

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Life Sciences
Specific Discipline: Bioscience
Outcome Year: 2014
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: "Office of Employment Equity investigated the complaint and issued a report in February 2014 that determined that such a relationship had occurred and that same was not welcome to plaintiff due to the "imbalance of power within the workplace." "
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Incident 7531

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline: Anthropology
Outcome Year: 1998
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "A rare effort to remove a tenured professor was stopped short this week when Rutgers University officials announced a settlement in which the teacher, who was accused of sexually harassing a student and mistreating others, agreed to resign and drop his own lawsuit against the university in exchange for a payment of $92,500.

The settlement came in the case of William K. Powers, 64, an anthropology professor at the state university's New Brunswick campus"
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