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Michael Simons, a Yale School of Medicine professor who was removed from a leadership post in 2014 after the university found him guilty of sexual harassment, was given an endowed professorship in the school’s cardiology department in July. In response, faculty members “went into an uproar,” and the school removed an online press release about Simons’s honor, Yale Daily News reported on Tuesday (August 28).
“The awarding of a new endowed chair to Dr. Simons communicates a message of tolerance: Faculty who were found guilty of sexual misconduct are still worthy of receiving this prestigious honor,” Paula Kavathas, a medical professor and former chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum at Yale, tells the college newspaper.
According to The New York Times, in 2014, a university investigation concluded that Simons had sexually harassed a postdoc at the medical school and then treated her husband, a Yale cardiologist, ...
