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The Ohio University Board of Trustees on Friday voted unanimously to terminate the employment and revoke the tenure of journalism professor Yusuf Kalyango, who was found by the university Title IX office to have sexually harassed at least two students. The Board of Trustees, serving as the final arbiter in determining the fate of Kalyangoâs tenure, reviewed the Faculty Senate Hearing Committeeâs report outlining its reconsideration of his appeal of tenure revocation after taking umbrage with the committeeâs original review and report that ultimately sided with the professor in favor of upholding his academic status. Loss of tenure is widely viewed as the most severe punishment in academia. ....
The Ohio University Board of Trustees on Monday voted unanimously to approve a resolution objecting to the Faculty Senate committee report that recommended upholding the tenure of journalism professor Yusuf Kalyango, who was found by the university Title IX office to have sexually harassed at least two students. The Board of Trustees, as the final arbiter in determining the fate of the professorâs tenure, made the decision following a more than four-hour long executive session where members reviewed the report and transcripts from the Faculty Senate committee. Kalyango, who has been at the center of several university investigations and lawsuits in recent years related to sexual misconduct allegations, and his attorney also appeared during the executive session in accordance with the faculty handbook, according to Board of Trustees Chair Janelle Coleman. ....
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 h ....