Inside Higher Ed: Prof Risks Pay to Avoid Harassment Training
Alexander McPherson is facing a deadline next week. The tenured professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of California at Irvine has until November 12 to complete a training program on sexual harassment. He’s never been accused of sexual harassment, but he is among the 3,522 faculty members and other employees at the university who have supervisory responsibilities and are therefore covered by a 2004 state law mandating the training.
Already, McPherson has been stripped of the supervision of workers in his lab — a program that has brought in millions in federal research grants. And he’s been warned by deans and others that if he doesn’t change his mind in a week, the university will stop paying him his salary of $148,000 a year. McPherson won’t budge.
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