Celeste Kidd, the University of Rochester assistant professor who was one of the women that complained about sexual harassment from Professor T. Florian Jaeger, has formally resigned from the school. In a scathing letter to the university, Kidd recounted many of the previously reported charges against Jaeger, noting that he is still employed by the […]
Florian Jaeger
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UR Faculty Senate censured Professor Florian Jaeger
In a vote earlier this week, the University of Rochester’s Faculty Senate formally censured Florian Jaeger, the professor at the center of the university’s sexual harassment scandal. Jaeger is accused of alleged inappropriate sexual behavior in his interactions with former students and colleagues from 2007 to 2013. The allegations led to a lawsuit in federal […]
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The complex legacy of Joel Seligman
Joel Seligman will step down as the University of Rochester’s president next week, a move that he clearly didn’t want to take but decided the University needed. The controversy over sexual harassment accusations against Professor Jaeger was simply too big, and Seligman made his decision even before outside investigators released their report about the University’s […]
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The UR’s #MeToo Moment
An investigation into sexual misconduct charges at the University of Rochester criticized the behavior of Professor Florian Jaeger’s actions but found that university officials acted appropriately. For the university and everyone in its community, though, the story is far from over.
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The UR and harassment: learning from the protests
Sexual harassment is an intimidating, often humiliating violation, of our privacy, of our right to determine who we will be intimate with.
