BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – UC Berkeley has suspended a tenured professor in the department of East Asian languages and cultures after finding that he sexually harassed a student and created a hostile work environment for her.
Professor Alan Tansman agreed on Nov. 20 to a two-year suspension with one year unpaid, and the other partially paid.
In a letter, UC Berkeley Vice Provost Ben Hermalin tells Tansman’s former student the unpaid suspension “represents a significant loss of income of over $190,000.”
Neither Tansman nor his lawyers responded to requests for comment.
UC Berkeley said in a statement that preserved the professor’s anonymity that an investigation found that over two years he sexually harassed the student.
The statement added that the professor “denied, and continues to deny, the allegations.”
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