The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has fired a tenured professor who was accused of sexually harassing one student and of posting on the Internet a personal essay written by another.
The student who wrote the essay said it had been a class assignment, and that she had not given the professor permission to publish it.
David J. Hibler, a professor of English on the university’s Lincoln campus, was fired based on “unprofessional conduct, sexual harassment, and an inability to comply with departmental and university policies,” said Nancy L. O’Brien, a regent who reviewed the recommendation of a faculty panel that he be dismissed. She said the university had been dissatisfied with Mr. Hibler for years. He started teaching at the university in 1965 but still held the rank of assistant professor when he was fired.
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