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Incidents at Syracuse University

Total: 3


Incident 7593

Status: Resolved
Person: NAME UNKNOWN
Role: Faculty
Position: unknown
Discipline: unknown
Specific Discipline:
Outcome Year: 2014
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: "Syracuse University has dismissed a male professor who had a consensual relationship with a female undergraduate student."
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Incident 7592

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Life Sciences
Specific Discipline: Neuroscience
Outcome Year: 2006
Outcome Category: Resigned, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote: "A former Syracuse University dean and tenured faculty member has been barred from the campus after an internal investigation found evidence of “grossly inappropriate conduct toward students,” including “egregious personal misconduct of physical and emotional abuse involving several individuals,” according to a university statement.

Steven Chamberlain, a neuroscience professor, has resigned from Syracuse rather than face a hearing that the university said “certainly would have resulted in his termination.” "
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Incident 7591

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: English Writing Humanities
Outcome Year: 1995
Outcome Category: Resigned, Suspended / Leave / Restrictions
Quote: "accused Stephen Dobyns, a respected author and tenured professor in the program, of sexual harassment after he allegedly made a comment about her breasts at an off-campus party on the night of March 31, 1995. After the alleged comment, a short, heated exchange of words between the two occurred. It ended when Dobyns threw his drink in Cotter’s face.

In summer 1995, SU ... suspended the professor for two years starting in April 1995. Dobyns would eventually resign."
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