An Ohio University Faculty Senate committee recommended in December that journalism professor Yusuf Kalyango shouldnât lose tenure and immediately be reinstated as a full professor after not being ensured adequate due process by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and the Scripps College of Communication.
Kalyango has been at the center of several university investigations and lawsuits in recent years related to allegations of sexual misconduct from at least two women, resulting in official university channels, including ethics committees and former Provost and Executive Vice President Chaden Djalali, recommending that he lose tenure and be fired.
He was suspended in 2018 by the university in consultation with the Scripps college after an investigation by the OU Office for Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, or the Title IX office, found that he sexually harassed a graduate student. Kalyango is still employed by the university to conduct research, but doesnât have contact with students in the role.