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 science announced he wouldn’t be teaching this semester and is turning his class over to someone else.
Jaeger is also the subject of an internet campaign calling on him to resign after 11 students and faculty members accused him of sexual harassment and having sex with students. More than 6,000 people had signed it as of Tuesday night
Earlier the university had said it investigated the complaints brought against Jaeger and found them to be unsubstantiated.
Tuesday night, President Seligman said the experience of distrust means the university “needs to cleanse.”