When anti-Israel and anti-America professor Corinna Mullin returns to the classroom this fall, she is going to be a part of a rogues gallery of controversial and even prison professors employed over time by taxpayer-funded Metropolis College of New York.
An unhinged Hunter Faculty arts professor held a machete to a Submit reporter’s neck and made wild threats that she was going to “chop” him up when he knocked on the door of her Bronx residence a day after she went viral for cursing out anti-abortion college students on campus.
Shellyne Rodriguez was charged with menacing and harassment within the caught on video incident, and fired by CUNY.
4 professors at John Jay Faculty of Prison Justice — which, sarcastically, trains cops — allegedly ran a lawless den of depravity dubbed “the swamp” the place they offered and used medication and preyed on college students, in response to 2018 sexual harassment complaints.
Accused within the scandal had been adjunct professor Leonardo Dominguez, former anthropology division chair Anthony Marcus, sociology professor and former division chair Barry Spunt, and anthropology professor and former chair of a number of departments, Ric Curtis.
Alleged victims Naomi Haber and Claudia Cojocaru filed complaints with John Jay’s Title IX workplace in Could 2018, detailing horrific allegations that included rape and medicines.
Curtis — who was identified for his drug analysis, significantly heroin — allegedly offered medication out of his John Jay workplace, in response to each complaints.
The professors denied the allegations and filed counterclaims for defamation, and had been positioned on depart in September 2018. Spunt and Marcus retired amid John Jay’s investigation and Dominguez by no means returned to the varsity. The DA’s workplace additionally launched a probe, however no prison costs had been introduced.
In 2021, John Jay paid Haber and Cojocaru $164,499.74 every. All allegations towards Curtis had been dropped besides retaliation.
In 2024 John Jay allowed Curtis to come back again and educate.
In a separate scandal, affiliate professor and chair of the Africana Research division, Carlton Jama Adams, was accused of exposing a grad scholar, Judith Sandrine Dikambi, to “a barrage of unrelenting and every day xenophobic, sexist and vulgar remarks about her African heritage,” in response to a 2019 lawsuit.
However Adams walked away with out punishment — as he continues to show on the faculty.
A decide dismissed the case in 2024, ordering the state of New York to pay Dikambi and his legal professionals $225,000 on behalf of CUNY and Adams.
Allyson Friedman, a biology professor at Hunter Faculty, inadvertently interrupted a black scholar’s issues concerning the potential shutdown of her Higher West Aspect faculty to say “they’re too dumb to know they’re in a nasty faculty” throughout a sizzling mic second.
She apologized after sparking widespread fury, and continues to be employed by CUNY.
The previous head of the faculty’s Middle on Media, Crime and Justice Stephen Handelman was accused of turning an intern greater than 50 years youthful than him right into a “sexual play toy.”
The nameless alleged sufferer filed a lawsuit towards him in 2022. The case was dismissed in August 2023.
Handelman was positioned on a depart and hasn’t returned to the varsity since.
Erin Thompson, self-described as America’s solely professor of artwork crime in her John Jay bio, as soon as advised rioters how one can topple statues “sooner.”
When protestors tore down the 10-foot Christopher Columbus statue on the Minnesota State Capitol by in June 2020, Thompson tweeted out: “I’m a professor who research the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage and I simply need to say…use a series as an alternative of a rope and it’ll go sooner.”
In 2017, economics professor Michael Isaacson was axed after posting on-line that it was a “privilege to show future useless cops.”
In a weird outburst, CUNY’s former vendor integrity director and adjunct professor at John Jay Vincent Inexperienced allegedly yanked a feminine scholar’s hair in 2018 and was subsequently ousted.
