Whether or not Mukund Vengalattore dated a graduate student under his supervision, Cornell University failed him and his accuser when it, as Vengalattore says, passed judgment without properly investigating the claim.
After the grad student filed a 2014 sexual misconduct complaint against Vengalattore, an atomic physicist and tenure-track assistant professor in Cornellâs College of Arts and Sciences, Title IX investigators found him in violation of university policy without bothering to hear his side of the story, according to a case argued before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week.
âCornell denied him any hearing. It denied him a right to cross-examine the witnesses. It even denied him the right to present his own live witnesses,â said Richard Samp, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing Vengalattore. âInstead, Cornell appointed a single individual as both the investigator and the jury, and the result
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