Incidents at University of Miami

Total: 6

Incident 8574

Status: Resolved
Person: John Peng Zhang
Role: Faculty
Position:
Discipline: Business
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 2020
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Specific Outcome: "sharing his screen when students spotted something unexpected– a pornographic bookmark tab". "UM confirmed Zhang is no longer employed by the university."
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Last updated: Apr 28, 2020 9:34 pm

Incident 8734

Status: Resolved
Person: William A. Lake
Role: Administrator
Position: Associate Dean of Students
Discipline:
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Outcome Year: 2016
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Specific Outcome: "Lake was fired May 31, 2016, because university officials discovered he had behaved inappropriately toward students."
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Last updated: Jul 15, 2021 6:00 am

Incident 7765

Status: Resolved
Person: Colin McGinn
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities, Philosophy
Specific Discipline: Philosophy
Outcome Year: 2013
Outcome Category: Resigned
Specific Outcome: Resigned right before facing faculty senate charges of not reporting a consensual relationship
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Last updated: Jun 2, 2019 2:06 pm

Incident 8840

Status: Resolved
Person: Doug Bickel
Role: Faculty
Position: Assistant Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Music
Outcome Year: 2010
Outcome Category: Resigned
Specific Outcome: "Doug Bickel, former director of the Frost Jazz Sextet, resigned abruptly after he was informed of a letter written by a student accusing him of smoking pot in his office, barbecuing inside a classroom, mooning his students and making sexually inappropriate comments to female students."
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Last updated: Mar 30, 2022 7:55 am

Incident 7764

Status: Resolved
Person: Jiri Valenta
Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Political Science, Government
Specific Discipline: Political Science, Government
Outcome Year: 1993
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Specific Outcome: Fired.
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Last updated: Jun 2, 2019 2:05 pm

Incident 8254

Status: Ongoing
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Last updated: Jun 4, 2019 6:35 pm