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University of Wisconsin Fires Tenured Professor
The University of Wisconsin
Regents fired John Marder, a tenured professor, two years after the chancellor
recommended his dismissal. Complaints about Marder’s sexual harassment
were first filed in 1995 by a female undergraduate with whom Marder shared a
hotel room. Marder apologized and promised that he would never again share a
room with a female student. However, a similar complaint was filed in 1996. The
university panel found no evidence of sexual harassment, but did find that
Marder had acted unprofessionally and used poor judgment. This case appears to
have aspects similar to
Diane Reifschneider’s:
complaints of sexual harassment after the sharing of a hotel room and the
university denial of harassment. The difference is that UCLA has spent large
amounts of time and money rather than fire a professor who has “acted
unprofessionally
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/22/01
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