An Ohio University Faculty Senate committee recommended in December that journalism professor Yusuf Kalyango shouldnât lose tenure and immediately be reinstated as a full professor after not being ensured adequate due process by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and the Scripps College of Communication.
Kalyango has been at the center of several university investigations and lawsuits in recent years related to allegations of sexual misconduct from at least two women, resulting in official university channels, including ethics committees and former Provost and Executive Vice President Chaden Djalali, recommending that he lose tenure and be fired.
He was suspended in 2018 by the university in consultation with the Scripps college after an investigation by the OU Office for Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, or the Title IX office, found that he sexually harassed a graduate student. Kalyango is still employed by the university to conduct research, but doesnât have conta
OHIO entrepreneur finds support from the Alumni Association’s Bobcat Neighborhood Published: January 27, 2021 Author: Staff reports Courtesty of Toyia Montgomery Toyia Montgomery, BSJ ‘02, is not afraid to take chances. A lifelong entrepreneur, Montgomery’s entertainment company, Good Vibes Entertainment, is included on the Ohio University Alumni Association’s Bobcat Neighborhood.
Toyia Montgomery, BSJ ‘02, is not afraid to take chances. The lifelong entrepreneur has started multiple businesses after graduating from OHIO, including Cliqq & Sip Coffee Shop in 2011 and Charm Consulting PR firm in 2015.
“I’ve always been an entrepreneur,” she said. “My dad was an entrepreneur, and my mom was an entrepreneur, so it’s kind of in my blood.”
Rui Kaneya and Taylor Johnston 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Rui Kaneya is a senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity. Before joining Public Integrity in 2018, he was an investigative reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat, covering criminal justice, immigration and other social justice issues. He was also a correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review and the investigations editor at The Chicago Reporter. A recipient of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Minority Fellowship and the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority Fellowship in Urban Journalism, he has received numerous journalism awards, among them the Watchdog Award for Excellence in Public Interest Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence National Media Award. He’s also a winner for the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Re
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Three Ohio University journalism graduate students have been named finalists in the Reynolds Journalism Instituteâs 2020 Student Innovation Competition.
The team includes Bharbi Hazarika, BSJ â19, Delaney Murray, BSJ â20, and Theo Peck-Suzuki.
âItâs a huge honor to be selected as a finalist, and weâre thrilled to be able to carry this project forward,â Peck-Suzuki said.
For the competition, the students had to team up with a local news organization and come up with an idea to help them engage the community.