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Incidents at Stanford University

Total: 11


Incident 8264

Status: Resolved
Person: Jose Montoya
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine
Specific Discipline: Medicine
Outcome Year: 2019
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: Fired for violating university "rules of conduct"
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Incident 8456

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline: Medicine
Outcome Year: 2018
Outcome Category: Retired
Quote: "A top heart doctor at the Palo Alto VA Hospital sexually harassed a subordinate employee, an investigation has found, but he says it was a consensual relationship."

"“Upon learning of the complaint against Dr. Giacomini in June of 2018, Stanford placed him on leave and relieved him of any responsibilities at the university,” said Stanford spokeswoman Julie Greicius. “As a result of the investigation’s findings, Dr. Giacomini was given the notice necessary to terminate his contract. During that period, he chose to retire. Dr. Giacomini did not resume any of his responsibilities at Stanford after being placed on leave in June 2018, and is no longer a Stanford faculty member.”"
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Incident 8099

Status: Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 2017
Outcome Category:
Quote: Investigating prior report of sexual assault
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Incident 8875

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Comparative Literature
Outcome Year: 2010
Outcome Category: Training / Counseling Required
Quote: "He had “groomed [Jeanne] to be his advisee even before [she] arrived at Stanford” and “blurred the lines of a professional and overly personal advisor-advisee relationship” with her, Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences Debra Satz and Acting Interim Title IX Coordinator Sallie Kim wrote in the case outcome letter. They added that Barletta “should be counseled and warned regarding establishing and maintaining appropriate advisor-advisee relationships.”

Despite the findings, Barletta kept his job and continued to formally advise graduate students. And several years later, he would be involved in another Title IX case with a different female graduate student. "
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Incident 7582

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities, English
Specific Discipline: English
Outcome Year: 2000
Outcome Category: Honor Revoked, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote: "Suspended"

"Stanford on Tuesday moved to strip the name of deceased English professor Jay Fliegelman Ph.D. ’77, who was accused of sexual assault, from his namesake library collection. "
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Incident 8050

Status: Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences, Medicine
Specific Discipline: Medicine
Outcome Year: 2000
Outcome Category:
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Incident 8395

Status: Resolved
Person: Dennis Green
Role: Coach
Position: Football Coach
Discipline: Athletics
Specific Discipline: Football
Outcome Year: 1995
Outcome Category: Monetary Settlement / Award
Quote: "University settles harassment claim"
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Incident 7580

Status: Resolved
Person: Thomas Stamey
Role: Faculty
Position: Department Chair, Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 1995
Outcome Category: Fine / Salary Reduction, Monetary Settlement / Award
Quote: "Stanford University has settled two sexual harassment claims by demoting one faculty member and forcing a second into retirement, according to Stanford News Service.

Both claims involved the School of Medicine, which was also involved in two high-profile sexual harassment cases several years ago, prompting Stanford to implement a new policy of investigating sexual harassment complaints and protecting such victims from faculty retaliation.

Dr. Thomas Stamey has been removed from his position as chairman of the Department of Urology and has taken a permanent reduction in pay, in addition to contributing financially to the woman staff member who accused him of harassment.

Stamey agreed to the settlement but denied he had harassed the woman.

In the second case, Dr. Seymour Levine has retired from his position in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Levine was accused of harassment in 1993 by Helen Bae, a research assistant, who filed a claim with the university and a lawsuit. Both have been settled."
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Incident 7581

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 1995
Outcome Category: Monetary Settlement / Award, Retired
Quote: "Stanford University has settled two sexual harassment claims by demoting one faculty member and forcing a second into retirement, according to Stanford News Service.

Both claims involved the School of Medicine, which was also involved in two high-profile sexual harassment cases several years ago, prompting Stanford to implement a new policy of investigating sexual harassment complaints and protecting such victims from faculty retaliation.

Dr. Thomas Stamey has been removed from his position as chairman of the Department of Urology and has taken a permanent reduction in pay, in addition to contributing financially to the woman staff member who accused him of harassment.

Stamey agreed to the settlement but denied he had harassed the woman.

In the second case, Dr. Seymour Levine has retired from his position in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Levine was accused of harassment in 1993 by Helen Bae, a research assistant, who filed a claim with the university and a lawsuit. Both have been settled."
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Incident 8730

Status: Resolved
Role: Administrator
Position: Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Director of Black Community Services Center
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 1992
Outcome Category: Criminal Plea / Conviction, Honor Revoked, Resigned
Quote: "A former assistant dean at Stanford University has been sentenced to four years probation for secretly videotaping women as they undressed in his campus apartment."

"Amid activism in May, Provost Persis Drell ordered the removal of a brick on campus that honored former assistant dean Keith Archuleta ’78. He was arrested and sentenced in 1992 for secretly videotaping women students as they undressed. "
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Incident 7579

Status: Resolved
Person: Mark Perlroth
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline: Medicine
Outcome Year: 1991
Outcome Category: Monetary Settlement / Award, Official Warning / Reprimand
Quote: "Zylbert was a medical student at Stanford in 1991 when she was the victim of sexual harassment by a prominent medical school faculty member, Dr. Mark Perlroth.

Perlroth received a letter of censure from then-Stanford President"

"Stanford University Medical School graduate who accused the university of retaliating against her has agreed to settle her lawsuit."
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