One of the people who is at the university right now, David Foran, is currently in the process of having his tenure revoked. It is so much more difficult to punish or terminate somebody who does have that tenure.īut other than that, the only thing that would make sense as to why they were given less of a punishment or why they weren't fired, is because they are tenured and because it is so much more difficult to punish or terminate somebody who does have that tenure. One of them was given a copy of the sexual misconduct policy and told more or less, "Here's what this policy is. The deans and the heads of the departments or colleges that the employees were at are the ones who are in charge of handing down the punishments. What were some of the reasons the university gave as to why they were allowed to stay in their positions?īerg: So, the university didn't really give any reason as to why they gave the punishment that they did. Saliby: There are plenty of cases you detail in this investigation that are of serial offenders or people who had been disciplined or investigated multiple times. So, we ended up requesting all of the cases involving faculty and staff that had been resolved within the past five years, and the number ended up being a lot bigger than we thought it was which is kind of what prompted the investigation. Individual cases kept coming up of sexual misconduct, and we were interested to see how big of a problem it was at the university. Saliby: What made you decide to start looking into how the university has been handling cases of sexual misconduct?īerg: This was something that we've been working on for quite a while now. Kara Berg reported out this story for the newspaper. MSU says more work is being done to improve consistency in disciplinary action and accountability. Of those employees, at least 11 remain at or are still affiliated with the university. That’s according to a new Lansing State Journal investigation. I’m Sophia Saliby.Īt least 49 faculty and staff at Michigan State University have been found in violation of its sexual misconduct policy since 2015. Sophia Saliby: This is All Things Considered on WKAR. So, this will address behavior kind of in that middle point between acceptable and a violation of the RVSM policy, and that should be something that's presented to the university this year. The university has said that they are creating a new policy to address behavior that may not meet the level of the Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct policy, but still isn't something that the university wants of their faculty and staff.
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