Incidents at University of Pennsylvania
Total: 6
Incident 7807
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Robert Kurzban
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Psychology
Outcome Year:
2018
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"Robert Kurzban, a former professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, resigned from this post recently after a series of allegations about inappropriate relationships with students were made against him over the last several months"
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Incident 8120
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2018
Outcome Category:
Quote:
Investigation ongoing
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Incident 8433
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Marybeth Gasman
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Education
Specific Discipline:
Higher Education
Outcome Year:
2017
Outcome Category:
Other
Quote:
"Following the investigation, it put certain sanctions -- what it called attempts to "change the culture" -- in place. Perhaps most significantly, master’s students were moved to a different area of the Penn campus, to another education program suite. "
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Incident 7806
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Tracy McIntosh
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Medicine
Outcome Year:
2005
Outcome Category:
Criminal Plea / Conviction, Resigned, Monetary Settlement / Award, Other
Quote:
"The victim, who was a 23-year-old woman about to enter Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine at the time of the assault, testified at the sentencing."
"Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison yesterday for the 2002 sexual assault"
"The victim reached confidential settlements in civil suits against both McIntosh and Penn in January 2007."
"As part of a civil suit she filed against Penn, she unearthed reports that showed that numerous other women in McIntosh's research laboratory had complained about his sexual advances. Their complaints led to an intervention with him in November 2002, two months after the assault.
The civil suit, which also named McIntosh and several university officials as defendants, was settled confidentially. The victim charged in the suit that she pursued criminal charges after the university failed to act on an internal complaint.
Penn forced McIntosh, head of its Head Injury Research Center, to resign after his no-contest plea."
Additional Source: Ex-professor in sex case can go to Italy: A judge let Tracy McIntosh take a job for 6 months. Prosecutors were furious
Jennifer Lin and Joseph A. Slobodzian. Knight Ridder Tribune Business News; Washington [Washington]21 Jan 2006: 1.
"Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison yesterday for the 2002 sexual assault"
"The victim reached confidential settlements in civil suits against both McIntosh and Penn in January 2007."
"As part of a civil suit she filed against Penn, she unearthed reports that showed that numerous other women in McIntosh's research laboratory had complained about his sexual advances. Their complaints led to an intervention with him in November 2002, two months after the assault.
The civil suit, which also named McIntosh and several university officials as defendants, was settled confidentially. The victim charged in the suit that she pursued criminal charges after the university failed to act on an internal complaint.
Penn forced McIntosh, head of its Head Injury Research Center, to resign after his no-contest plea."
Additional Source: Ex-professor in sex case can go to Italy: A judge let Tracy McIntosh take a job for 6 months. Prosecutors were furious
Jennifer Lin and Joseph A. Slobodzian. Knight Ridder Tribune Business News; Washington [Washington]21 Jan 2006: 1.
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Incident 7805
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Malcolm Woodfield
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Assistant Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
English Writing Humanities
Outcome Year:
1994
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"Penn professor resigns"
Sources:
1. EX-STUDENT SEEKS 100G FROM PENN: SUIT CLAIMS ENGLISH PROF SEDUCED & WHIPPED HER
Smith, Jim. Philadelphia Daily News; Philadelphia, Pa. [Philadelphia, Pa]16 Mar 1994: 4.
2. PENN PROFESSOR RESIGNS, ADMITS TO SEX WITH STUDENT: MALCOLM WOODFIELD TAUGHT ENGLISH LITERATURE. THE STUDENT IS SUING PENN IN FEDERAL COURT.
Goodman, Howard. Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia, Pa. [Philadelphia, Pa]27 Apr 1994: B.3.
Sources:
1. EX-STUDENT SEEKS 100G FROM PENN: SUIT CLAIMS ENGLISH PROF SEDUCED & WHIPPED HER
Smith, Jim. Philadelphia Daily News; Philadelphia, Pa. [Philadelphia, Pa]16 Mar 1994: 4.
2. PENN PROFESSOR RESIGNS, ADMITS TO SEX WITH STUDENT: MALCOLM WOODFIELD TAUGHT ENGLISH LITERATURE. THE STUDENT IS SUING PENN IN FEDERAL COURT.
Goodman, Howard. Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia, Pa. [Philadelphia, Pa]27 Apr 1994: B.3.
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Incident 8300
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Larry Wittig
Role:
Coach
Position:
Rowing Coach
Discipline:
Coach
Specific Discipline:
Rowing
Outcome Year:
1984
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
Resigned "following investigation into charges of sexual harassment and program mismanagement"
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