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 […]
Joel Seligman
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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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Seligman says goodbye – for the moment – to the UR
In an often emotional speech on Thursday, University of Rochester President Joel Seligman gave a farewell address to a packed auditorium at the Memorial Art Gallery.
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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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A modest little proposal for revitalizing downtown
Where a company has its corporate headquarters makes a statement about that company and how it views its community.
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Getting the bang out of 500 million bucks
University of Rochester President Joel Seligman spends much of the present thinking about the future. He’s working on a speech titled “The Future of Rochester,” which he’ll give to the Chatterbox Club later this month. As he’s prepared the speech, he says that he’s asked himself how the community envisions itself in 10 years, how […]
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Photonics institute partners vow to play nice
Sometimes, things have to get worse before they can get better. And for the week-long photonics institute skirmish that blew up yesterday, that cliché may hold true. University of Rochester President Joel Seligman says that he, Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, SUNY Polytechnic Institute CEO Alain Kaloyeros, and an unnamed senior official with Governor Andrew […]
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The photonics fight: it’s about leadership, not buildings
SUNY Polytechnic should have known better than to pick a fight over the photonics institute. Companies and researchers in the Rochester region helped carve out the multi-disciplinary, high-tech field, and they’ve remained at the top of it. Local leaders have been fiercely protective of the industry, and they weren’t about to let someone from outside […]
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Seligman’s very big plan for the very big deal
The University of Rochester president has done what too many community leaders have failed to do over the years.
