A University of New Hampshire faculty member has resigned after a school investigation into “serious allegations of misconduct” 在社交媒体上, 根据大学.
A male assistant professor allegedly posed as a woman of color under the handle @piney_the, with the tagline “The Science Femme, Woman in STEM,” campus newspaper The New Hampshire reported in October.
The account allegedly targeted female scientists on Twitter, and bragged about striking language about systemic racism from a department statement in June 2020, 根据论文.
Screenshots shared September 28 by @drama_science, 要么 “Science Drama Queen,” appeared to show both the “Science Femme” and the professor’s personal account sharing the same photo of a coffeemaking set-up, and demonstrate similar family connections to a brewery. 的 “Science Femme” account has since been deleted.
上 九月 30, the university tweeted it had been “recently made aware of allegations on social media about a member of our faculty. We are deeply troubled by what we’ve learned so far and immediately launched an investigation.”
“We share your concern about the potential impact on our community members. Colleagues around the university are offering support for impacted individuals and we will continue to do so,” Dean said in October.
The faculty member has not been named by the university “in order to protect the privacy of all involved,” the most recent statement said.
在声明中 星期三, Dean said the faculty member “chose to resign when the university concluded that the conduct exhibited was not consistent with the university’s values.”
Representatives for the University of New Hampshire did not respond to CNN’s multiple requests for comment.
It is the most recent case of a person in academia passing themselves off as a person of color.
在九月, a White professor of African and Latin American studies at George Washington University admitted she had pretended to be Black for her entire professional career. Jessica Krug apologized in an article on Medium.com, explaining she grew up Jewish in a Kansas City suburb.
Later that month, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison resigned from a teaching position after admitting on social media that they falsely claimed to be a person of color. CV Vitolo-Haddad apologized in posts on Medium.com and said they let incorrect guesses about their ancestry, which is southern Italian, “become answers I wanted but couldn’t prove.”
