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Women in Higher Education

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One year after the University of Missouri at Kansas City settled a lawsuit alleging rampant sexual harassment by two tenured psychology professors, the two professors are resigning in order to avoid disciplinary action.

In July 2007, the university reached a $1.1 million settlement with two female employees who claimed the school was unresponsive to their complaints about professors C. Keith Haddock and Walker Carlos Poston II. The women claimed the men created a "sexually hostile work environment" by making explicit jokes, groping female colleagues and making sexual advances.

Officials then reassigned Haddock and Poston to a different lab at the Kansas City campus. The men recently agreed to resign instead of ...

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