An apology from University of Rochester President Joel Seligman and a professor’s announcement that he won’t be teaching this semester weren’t enough to head off a protest this evening on the university campus. About 150 students wore red armbands and called for the firing of Dr. Florian Jaeger. The The professor of brain and cognitive […]
University of Rochester President Joel Seligman has announced that a professor at the center of a harassment complaint won’t be teaching this fall. At a campus meeting, Dr. Seligman said the university will bring in an outside investigator to review a sexual harassment complaint filed against Dr. Florian Jaeger. The professor of brain and cognitive […]
An article in Mother Jones magazine has drawn concern in the University of Rochester community. It tells about a decade-long effort by a female faculty member fighting against what she said were years of sexual harassment in the workplace, at the hands of a professor she described as a “narcissistic and manipulative sexual predator.” The […]