Incidents at Yale University
Total: 18
Incident 8607
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Jed Rubenfeld
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Law
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2020
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
"Yale had suspended him from the faculty for two years and would restrict his interactions with students upon his return to the campus in New Haven, Conn.
The suspension followed a university investigation into allegations that Mr. Rubenfeld, a faculty member for 30 years, had sexually harassed female students, both verbally and by attempting to kiss or touch them without their consent, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry."
The suspension followed a university investigation into allegations that Mr. Rubenfeld, a faculty member for 30 years, had sexually harassed female students, both verbally and by attempting to kiss or touch them without their consent, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry."
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Incident 8142
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2018
Outcome Category:
Quote:
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Incident 8195
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Eugene Redmond
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Psychiatry
Outcome Year:
2018
Outcome Category:
Retired, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
He retired in July of 2018 after he was found responsible for sexual harassment. He had also been banned from the Yale campus.
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Incident 8092
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2017
Outcome Category:
Quote:
Lawsuit filed.
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Incident 7934
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Roberto González Echevarría
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities, Languages
Specific Discipline:
Languages
Outcome Year:
2016
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
Leave of absence after accusation.
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Incident 7932
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Michael Simons
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Medicine
Outcome Year:
2015
Outcome Category:
Resigned, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
18-month suspension, then resigned.
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Incident 7933
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Rex L. Mahnensmith
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Medicine
Outcome Year:
2015
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
Resigned.
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Incident 7935
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Emri Seli
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Medicine
Outcome Year:
2015
Outcome Category:
Other
Quote:
"violated the teacher-student fraternalization policy and recommended several disciplinary actions short of termination.". PDF of lawsuit included in story.
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Incident 8065
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2015
Outcome Category:
Quote:
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Incident 7931
Status:
Resolved
Person:
John Coleman Darnell
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Department Chair
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities, History
Specific Discipline:
History
Outcome Year:
2013
Outcome Category:
Resigned, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote:
One year suspension. Resigned as chair
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Incident 8057
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year:
2011
Outcome Category:
Quote:
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Incident 7930
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Joseph Schlessinger
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Department Chair, Professor
Discipline:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline:
Pharmacology
Outcome Year:
2007
Outcome Category:
Monetary Settlement / Award
Quote:
Lawsuit settled.
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Incident 8797
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Antonio Lasaga
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Specific Discipline:
Earth, Atmospheric, and Ocean Sciences
Outcome Year:
1998
Outcome Category:
Criminal Plea / Conviction, Monetary Settlement / Award, Resigned
Quote:
"It all began Nov. 6, 1998, when the FBI raided the Saybrook Master’s House after two graduate students stumbled upon suspicious images on Lasaga’s Geology Department computer and passed along their findings to the authorities. Lasaga resigned that day for what then-Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead described as “personal reasons.”
The perverse details of Lasaga’s wrongdoing would emerge over the following months. On Lasaga’s computer, investigators found explicit videos the professor had shot of the boy, who was 13 at the time, in the Kline Geology Laboratory and even the Saybrook Master’s House. They also revealed that Lasaga was found to have built a digital collection of some 150,000 pornographic images.
Yet several of Lasaga’s colleagues pleaded in court for leniency in the professor’s case, with one professor from another university asserting that Lasaga was such an eminent scholar with so many research interests that he never could have had enough time to look at so much pornography.
Lasaga, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to both federal and state charges and has been incarcerated since being sentenced in 2002 to 20 years for the sexual-assault charges and a concurrent 15 years for federal pornography charges. The year before, Lasaga was fired by University President Richard Levin, who acted on the recommendation of the University Tribunal, Yale’s highest disciplinary body.
To make matters worse for the former master, a jury ruled in 2004 that Lasaga is liable for $16.5 million in damages to the boy he molested. The University was at first a co-defendant in that suit, but attorneys for the boy withdrew their claim against Yale and said they planned to sue the University separately in the future."
The perverse details of Lasaga’s wrongdoing would emerge over the following months. On Lasaga’s computer, investigators found explicit videos the professor had shot of the boy, who was 13 at the time, in the Kline Geology Laboratory and even the Saybrook Master’s House. They also revealed that Lasaga was found to have built a digital collection of some 150,000 pornographic images.
Yet several of Lasaga’s colleagues pleaded in court for leniency in the professor’s case, with one professor from another university asserting that Lasaga was such an eminent scholar with so many research interests that he never could have had enough time to look at so much pornography.
Lasaga, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to both federal and state charges and has been incarcerated since being sentenced in 2002 to 20 years for the sexual-assault charges and a concurrent 15 years for federal pornography charges. The year before, Lasaga was fired by University President Richard Levin, who acted on the recommendation of the University Tribunal, Yale’s highest disciplinary body.
To make matters worse for the former master, a jury ruled in 2004 that Lasaga is liable for $16.5 million in damages to the boy he molested. The University was at first a co-defendant in that suit, but attorneys for the boy withdrew their claim against Yale and said they planned to sue the University separately in the future."
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Incident 7929
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Jay Jorgenson
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Assistant Professor
Discipline:
Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Mathematics
Specific Discipline:
Mathematics
Outcome Year:
1996
Outcome Category:
Official Warning / Reprimand
Quote:
Reprimanded.
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Incident 7928
Status:
Resolved
Person:
NAME UNKNOWN
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
History
Outcome Year:
1993
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
"a professor accused of harassment last spring resigned from Yale and returned to the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he had previously taught.
The history professor was accused of harassment by a graduate student. Although the complaint was found to have merit, the professor resigned before any action was taken"
The history professor was accused of harassment by a graduate student. Although the complaint was found to have merit, the professor resigned before any action was taken"
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Incident 7926
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Mario T. Garcia
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities, Languages
Specific Discipline:
Languages
Outcome Year:
1992
Outcome Category:
Resigned
Quote:
Resigned – returned to former job at university of california – santa barbara.
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Incident 7927
Status:
Resolved
Person:
Stephen Kellert
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Life Sciences, Forestry
Specific Discipline:
Forestry
Outcome Year:
1992
Outcome Category:
Official Warning / Reprimand
Quote:
Disciplined (details unknown).
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Incident 8557
Status:
Ongoing
Person:
Role:
Position:
Discipline:
Specific Discipline:
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