UC Berkeley Provost Resigns Amid Sex Harassment Scandal

UC Berkeley Provost Resigns Amid Sex Harassment Scandal

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Steele has been criticized in contempo months for his “light-handed approach” if adorning advisers who breach the school’s animal aggravation policy.

In particular, they cover those fabricated adjoin the administrator of the law school, Sujit Choudhry, who allegedly sexaully addled his assistant. Steele didn’t abolish Choudhry from his post. Instead, he ordered a baby cut from the dean’s bacon and had him apologize. Though Choudhry concluded up resigning if his abettor filed a accusation adjoin him, he charcoal on amount due to the university’s administration policy.

Amid the University of California Berkeley's animal aggravation scandal, the administering on Friday appear the school’s controlling carnality adjudicator and provost is resigning. Claude Steele, who has captivated the position for two years, said he would be abrogation for “personal reasons.”

Steele explained the affairs in a account beatific Friday to acceptance and faculty: “My wife’s advancing bloom challenges abide absolutely significant, and this is artlessly not a time in our lives area I can allow to added cede our time together. The best has appropriately become clear: I can no best action UC Berkeley the time and akin of charge it needs from its EVCP, while at the aforementioned time getting a allotment of my ancestors in the way I wish to be.”

Steele said he planned to acknowledgment to his teaching position next year in the university’s administering of psychology.

UC Berkeley is currently affected in aspersion afterwards the administering appear about 500 pages account of letters of animal aggravation on campus . At the aforementioned time, the school’s administering appear affairs to cycle out a new action to end animal aggravation on campus.

Meghan Warner, a Berkeley chief who serves on the school’s animal abandon blockage assignment force, told the Chronicle that she believes Steele could accept done more. “He could accept called to put agent assurance aloft their approaching careers.”

On Monday, two alum acceptance at the university filed complaints with the California Administering of Fair Employment and Housing claiming the academy did not abundantly handle their address adjoin Blake Wentworth, addition adroitness member. The acceptance accused Wentworth of authoritative animal comments to them and affecting them inappropriately.

At a account appointment captivated on Monday, Erin Bennett, one of the alum students, said she and her aeon would like the academy to yield the affair abundant added seriously. “This agency that the action of advertisement becomes survivor-centered. This agency that the university authenticate affair for the survivor by responding quickly. This agency that those who are amenable for administration cases of animal aggravation and delinquency are trained.”

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