Dive Brief:
- A dispute over a $500 teaching award started a chain of events that has seen a professor accused of publicly embarrassing a student, videotaping students and sending seniors an email with sexual overtones.
- University of Illinois Prof. Louis Wozniak may see his tenure revoked by university trustees this week in what would likely be a first in university history.
- A faculty committee cleared him of most allegations and issued conditions for his future behavior; but the school says Wozniak did not abide by those conditions and that is why they are seeking to revoke tenure.
Dive Insight:
The whole case has been a long and winding road — one that may be nearing its end. Wozniak asked students to sign a contract requesting that they keep "irrelevant conversation to 10 words or less." In one of the missives that got him in trouble, he asks former students to tell him their names up front because he only remembers "names of the [former students] I've had sex with." Afterward, he said that was a joke.