Incidents at University of Georgia
Total: 20
Incident 8488
Status:
Resolved
Person:
John Seaman
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Research Professor
Discipline:
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline:
Biogeochemistry
Outcome Year:
2019
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"A University of Georgia professor was suspended for two weeks without pay and placed under certain restrictions in May after a UGA Equal Opportunity Office investigation found the professor in violation of university policies, EOO records show."
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Incident 8252
Status:
Resolved
Person:
William Kazez
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline:
Mathematics
Outcome Year:
2019
Outcome Category:
Retired, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"has resigned from the university and is no longer permitted on campus grounds according to a Dec. 4", 2019 email. "Findings of NDAH violations and "a recommended sanction of termination." Chronicle of Higher Education article clarifies that accused RETIRED on Oct 17, 2019
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Incident 7730
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Michael Holosko
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2018
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions, Training / Counseling Required
Quote:
"Over the course of three years, University of Georgia professor Michael Holosko was investigated by the Equal Opportunity Office three separate times for sexual harassment allegations.
Two of these investigations resulted in violations of UGA’s Non-Discrimination Anti-Harassment Policy. Despite multiple violations, he continued to teach at the university for more than two years after the final case concluded in 2015."
"Holosko was found in violation of the NDAH policy for sexual harassment twice, according to formal NDAH findings letters from the EOO. He was required to attend a NDAH training session and write an apology to students after his first violation in 2012"
"After this third accusation, Dawkins’ findings letter said Holosko was required to annually attend NDAH policy training, instructed to keep his office door open “or at least cracked” while students were there and would no longer be assigned any female graduate assistants.
"This pattern of offensive language with sexual subtext cannot be dismissed as mere misunderstanding or a play on words given your use of this explanation as a repeated defense.”
"In addition to these sanctions, Dawkins warned Holosko another violation of the NDAH policy could result in suspension or termination"
Two of these investigations resulted in violations of UGA’s Non-Discrimination Anti-Harassment Policy. Despite multiple violations, he continued to teach at the university for more than two years after the final case concluded in 2015."
"Holosko was found in violation of the NDAH policy for sexual harassment twice, according to formal NDAH findings letters from the EOO. He was required to attend a NDAH training session and write an apology to students after his first violation in 2012"
"After this third accusation, Dawkins’ findings letter said Holosko was required to annually attend NDAH policy training, instructed to keep his office door open “or at least cracked” while students were there and would no longer be assigned any female graduate assistants.
"This pattern of offensive language with sexual subtext cannot be dismissed as mere misunderstanding or a play on words given your use of this explanation as a repeated defense.”
"In addition to these sanctions, Dawkins warned Holosko another violation of the NDAH policy could result in suspension or termination"
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Incident 7729
Status:
Resolved
Person:
T.W. Cauthen
Role:
Administrator
Position:
Associate Vice President
Discipline:
Education
Specific Discipline:
Student Affairs
Outcome Year:
2016
Outcome Category:
Resigned, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"T.W. Cauthen, former associate vice president for academic, campus and community partnerships in the Division of Student Affairs, has resigned from the University of Georgia"
"Review of the investigation by Whitten and Wilson led to Cauthen being “immediately relieved of all duties within the Division of Student Affairs, prohibited from having any further interaction with UGA students, notified that his annual contract would not be renewed when it expired on June 30, 2016” and reassigned to academic affairs"
"Review of the investigation by Whitten and Wilson led to Cauthen being “immediately relieved of all duties within the Division of Student Affairs, prohibited from having any further interaction with UGA students, notified that his annual contract would not be renewed when it expired on June 30, 2016” and reassigned to academic affairs"
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Incident 7727
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Frank Crumley
Role:
Administrator
Position:
Executive Associate Athletic Director
Discipline:
Athletics
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2014
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"An inappropriate relationship between a senior administrator and a subordinate led to the recent resignation of the No. 2-ranking executive in the University of Georgia Athletic Association.
According to dozens of pages of documents released to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday as part of a freedom-of-information request, a relationship between UGA executive associate athletic director Frank Crumley and Jana White, the athletic department’s director of development, was confirmed during the course of a recent Equal Opportunity Office (EOO) investigation."
According to dozens of pages of documents released to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday as part of a freedom-of-information request, a relationship between UGA executive associate athletic director Frank Crumley and Jana White, the athletic department’s director of development, was confirmed during the course of a recent Equal Opportunity Office (EOO) investigation."
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Incident 7728
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Richard Suplita
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Lecturer
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Psychology
Outcome Year:
2014
Outcome Category:
Official Warning / Reprimand
Quote:
"A University of Georgia psychology professor accused of violating the University policy against sexual harassment intends to resign because of his “disgust” with the way the investigative process was handled.
Richard Suplita, a professor of behavioral and brain sciences who has worked at UGA for 14 years, was notified Oct. 15 that an Equal Opportunity Office investigation found he had violated the Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy.
The investigator recommended his termination from the University."
“Suplita admits he violated the policy in 2012, when he dated an undergraduate student he met in one of his classes”.
Richard Suplita, a professor of behavioral and brain sciences who has worked at UGA for 14 years, was notified Oct. 15 that an Equal Opportunity Office investigation found he had violated the Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy.
The investigator recommended his termination from the University."
“Suplita admits he violated the policy in 2012, when he dated an undergraduate student he met in one of his classes”.
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Incident 7726
Status:
Resolved
Person:
James Barsness
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
Art
Outcome Year:
2013
Outcome Category:
No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote:
"UGA art professor James Barsness had sex in a public place, with an undergraduate he was supervising, during UGA's 2012 Maymester study abroad program in Costa Rica. He then told the young woman not to talk about the encounter because he would lose his job.
He was right.
On Wednesday, the Board of Regents voted to deny his appeal and uphold his tenure revocation"
He was right.
On Wednesday, the Board of Regents voted to deny his appeal and uphold his tenure revocation"
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Incident 7725
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Paul Roman
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Sociology
Outcome Year:
2011
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"A prominent University of Georgia researcher must schedule visits to his own office and can no longer make personnel decisions affecting members of his research team after he was found in violation of UGA’s harassment policy.
Paul Roman, an expert in substance abuse treatment, created a hostile work environment for female employees, and retaliated against one of them after she filed a complaint about his behavior, UGA officials found."
Paul Roman, an expert in substance abuse treatment, created a hostile work environment for female employees, and retaliated against one of them after she filed a complaint about his behavior, UGA officials found."
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Incident 7723
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Philipus Pangloli
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Life Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Agriculture, Food Science and Technology
Outcome Year:
2010
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"Pangloli, a professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, was found in violation after making sexual and racial comments toward one of his student laboratory assistants. ... included a five-day suspension without pay."
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Incident 7724
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Marco Pacioni
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
Languages
Outcome Year:
2010
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions, Training / Counseling Required
Quote:
"Pacioni was suspended for three days without pay, had to obtain sexual harassment training within three months, refrain from further contact with the student and refrain from similar harassment contact with any other member of the University community."
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Incident 7719
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Mark Jensen
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Assistant Professor
Discipline:
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline:
Bioscience
Outcome Year:
2008
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"Mark Jensen, assistant professor of genetics and epidemiology, resigned from the University on March 26 after the Office of Legal Affairs found him in violation of the policy, the Athens Banner-Herald reported Tuesday."
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Incident 7720
Status:
Resolved
Person:
William Neil Bender
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Education
Specific Discipline:
Communication Sciences and Special Education
Outcome Year:
2008
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"William Neil Bender, who teaches in the Communication Sciences and Special Education Department, has faced numerous accusations of harassment spanning back to 1988, the year when many of today's freshmen and sophomores were born. According to documents obtained by The Red & Black under the state open records law, Bender tendered his resignation in September, but it will not take effect until May 6, 2008. During the interim, Bender is teaching two online courses, but "must refrain from having private and/or personal interactions with University students,""
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Incident 7721
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Charles C. Doyle
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Associate Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
English Writing Humanities
Outcome Year:
2008
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"Charles Doyle, associate professor of English who went on administrative leave Feb. 29 after he was found in violation of the University's Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy, resumed teaching classes Monday."
"He was found in violation for sending e-mails to female students that they said made them feel uncomfortable. Doyle was placed on a two-year probation and agreed "not to initiate any electronic communications with students.""
"He was found in violation for sending e-mails to female students that they said made them feel uncomfortable. Doyle was placed on a two-year probation and agreed "not to initiate any electronic communications with students.""
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Incident 7722
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Stephen M. Shellman
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Assistant Professor
Discipline:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Public Affairs
Outcome Year:
2008
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
" Stephen M. Shellman, an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, admitted having a problem with alcohol and resigned March 7. He was under investigation by the Office of Legal Affairs for violating the University's Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy, which centered around two occasions involving alcohol and inappropriate contact with a student."
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Incident 7718
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Keith Parker
Role:
Administrator
Position:
Associate Provost
Discipline:
Business
Specific Discipline:
Institutional Diversity
Outcome Year:
2005
Outcome Category:
Demoted
Quote:
"Parker, a tenured professor of sociology, was removed from his position as associate provost for institutional diversity in July after administrators learned about the incident."
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Incident 7717
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Benjamin G. Blount
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Anthropology
Outcome Year:
2004
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"A former University professor resigned and obtained a new job in academia before his sexual harassment investigation was completed."
"1991: A graduate student accused Blount of trying to kiss her. The complaint was dropped.
1996: Four students made sexual harassment allegations against Blount. All four students dropped their complaints.
2003: An undergraduate student accused Blount of touching her inappropriately. He was found in violation of the policy. The University issued him a letter of reprimand, told him to take a sexual harassment class and eliminate interactions with undergraduates.
2003: A female professor issued a sexual harassment complaint against Blount.
2004: Blount resigned before the Office of Legal Affairs completed the investigation. All parties involved in the investigation agreed not to discuss it."
"1991: A graduate student accused Blount of trying to kiss her. The complaint was dropped.
1996: Four students made sexual harassment allegations against Blount. All four students dropped their complaints.
2003: An undergraduate student accused Blount of touching her inappropriately. He was found in violation of the policy. The University issued him a letter of reprimand, told him to take a sexual harassment class and eliminate interactions with undergraduates.
2003: A female professor issued a sexual harassment complaint against Blount.
2004: Blount resigned before the Office of Legal Affairs completed the investigation. All parties involved in the investigation agreed not to discuss it."
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Incident 7716
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Nadeem Naqvi
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Assistant Professor
Discipline:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Economics
Outcome Year:
1999
Outcome Category:
No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote:
"In the matter of Nadeem Naqvi at the University of Georgia, concerning termination of his employment, that the application for review be denied." Source is: UGA panel: Fire teacher: [Home Edition]. Plott Brice. The Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta, Ga. [Atlanta, Ga]07 May 1999: D; 15.
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Incident 7714
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Herman van Halbeek
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline:
Chemistry
Outcome Year:
1996
Outcome Category:
Official Warning / Reprimand
Quote:
"Reprimanded" Source is article available through Lexis Nexis: UGA professor accused of sexual harassment; History of allegations: Complaint recounts incidents over 8 years. By Rebecca McCarthy, 1996. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, STATE NEWS, p. 03C.
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Incident 7715
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Alexander Ross
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
Music
Outcome Year:
1996
Outcome Category:
No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote:
"A music professor at the University of Georgia who had been approved for tenure has been fired for sexually harassing students.
The professor, Alexander Ross, was accused of appearing nude in front of two female students in separate incidents during parties at his apartment in 1988 and 1989."
"American violin dealer and former University of Georgia violin professor Alexander Ross has been charged with sexual assault"
The professor, Alexander Ross, was accused of appearing nude in front of two female students in separate incidents during parties at his apartment in 1988 and 1989."
"American violin dealer and former University of Georgia violin professor Alexander Ross has been charged with sexual assault"
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Incident 8495
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
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Outcome Category:
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