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Roland G. Fryer Jr.

Status: Resolved
Institution: Harvard University
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Economics, Business
Specific Discipline: Economics
Outcome Year: 2019
Outcome Category: Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote: "Mr. Fryer, 42, has been the subject of several concurrent university investigations, which concluded that he had engaged in “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” against at least five employees over the course of a decade.

In a letter to the economics department on Wednesday, Claudine Gay, a Harvard dean, said Mr. Fryer would be put on administrative leave for two years, during which he cannot teach or conduct research using university resources. The Education Innovation Laboratory, the off-campus space known as EdLabs where he conducted most of his work, will be permanently closed. A Harvard spokeswoman said he would not be paid during his suspension."
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