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A efficiency analysis throughout Glenn Sulmasy’s time on the academy cited inappropriate communications with cadets and subordinates.
DUDLEY, Mass. (AP) — A former Coast Guard Academy professor whose tenure coincided with a sexual harassment scandal has resigned as president of Nichols School in Massachusetts.
Glenn Sulmasy stepped down Tuesday amid an investigation initiated by Nichols after accusations from Sulmasy’s time on the academy got here to mild.
“In mild of those stories and information uncovered up to now throughout our ongoing investigation, and their impression on President Sulmasy’s potential to guide Nichols School, the board strongly believes the establishment’s finest curiosity is to pursue new management,” the faculty mentioned.
Neither Sulmasy nor his lawyer instantly returned messages looking for remark Wednesday. The Coast Guard additionally had no speedy remark.
The Coast Guard in June apologized for failing to take “applicable motion” years earlier when accusations of sexual assault and harassment surfaced on the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
An investigation dubbed “Operation Fouled Anchor” recognized 62 substantiated incidents of sexual assault and harassment.
The interior Coast Guard investigation was first reported by CNN, which later reported {that a} efficiency analysis throughout Sulmasy’s time on the academy cited inappropriate communications with cadets and subordinates. CNN reported that the Coast Guard thought-about charging him with conduct unbecoming of an officer.
Sulmasy served as a regulation professor and chief of the division of humanities earlier than retiring from the Coast Guard Academy in 2015 with a rank of captain. He later served as provost and chief educational officer at Bryant College in Rhode Island earlier than becoming a member of Nichols in 2021.
Nichols, a non-public, four-year faculty, employed an outdoor regulation agency, Clifford & Kenney LLP, to conduct an unbiased investigation that hasn’t but been accomplished. A university spokesperson declined to remark additional.