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Incidents at Montana State University

Total: 3


Incident 8257

Status: Resolved
Person: Hikmet Budak
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Bioscience
Specific Discipline: Bioscience
Outcome Year: 2019
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: Resigned after investigation into multiple allegations. For example: "Budak admitted having an affair with one young woman student, but told investigators he didn’t reveal it to his superiors, as required by MSU’s conflict of interest policy, because he was still married."
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Incident 7445

Status: Resolved
Person: Todd Feeley
Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline: Geoscience
Outcome Year: 2015
Outcome Category: Suspended / Leave / Restrictions, Committed Suicide
Quote: "after woman students first started coming forward with accusations against Feeley, he was still an MSU professor, still on the payroll, though on medical leave and barred from contacting women students in the case.

Despite that precaution, one woman student was worried enough in February 2015 that she asked the university to change the lock to the room where she had a desk.

The following month, on March 22, 2015, Feeley took his own life."
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Incident 7444

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Orchestra Conductor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: Music
Outcome Year: 2011
Outcome Category: Monetary Settlement / Award, Resigned
Quote: "Montana State University has agreed to pay $175,000 to a former student who filed a civil lawsuit alleging the school was negligent in hiring a convicted sex offender as a music teacher."

"A university investigation found assistant professor Shuichi Komiyama had an intimate relationship with the woman. She said she felt she had to give in to his sexual advances to further her career. He was hired in 2006 and resigned in September 2011."
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