The University of Arizona’s provost stepped down on Monday shortly after a lawsuit alleged gender discrimination against female deans at the hands of the university’s leadership, and specifically that the provost, Andrew C. Comrie, had “a history of making sexist and demeaning comments towards female deans,” among other things.
In an email to the campus dated Monday, the university’s president, Robert C. Robbins, said Mr. Comrie had decided “just after the new year” to step down to return to the faculty, in the School of Geography and Development. The university’s vice president for communications, Chris W. Sigurdson, wrote in an email to The Chronicle that Mr. Comrie’s resignation and the lawsuit were “totally unrelated.” Mr. Sigurdson added that the university had not yet seen the text of the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday.
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