New allegations emerged about UW-Madison engineering professor Akbar Sayeed, prompting the university to open a second investigation into him. Sayeed resigned Aug. 1.
With a six-sentence resignation letter wishing UW-Madison all the best, engineering professor Akbar Sayeed left behind “a career-long string of victims” and a department that failed time and again in responding to his bad behavior, according to a newly released investigative report.
"It is concerning that faculty heard (Sayeed) screaming at students down the hall and did nothing about it," fourth-year graduate student Bryan Rubio Perez said. "It’s also concerning that it went on for nearly 25 years and it was only reported in writing once."
UW-Madison graduate students in December 2019 marched from Engineering Mall to deliver a petition to Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlining their desire for a workplace free of bullying and harassment.
UW-Madison says it was the first among University of Wisconsin System schools and ahead of many of its peers when it adopted a hostile and intimidating behavior policy in 2016.
"It is concerning that faculty heard (Sayeed) screaming at students down the hall and did nothing about it," fourth-year graduate student Bryan Rubio Perez said. "It’s also concerning that it went on for nearly 25 years and it was only reported in writing once."
UW-Madison graduate students in December 2019 marched from Engineering Mall to deliver a petition to Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlining their desire for a workplace free of bullying and harassment.
New allegations emerged about UW-Madison engineering professor Akbar Sayeed, prompting the university to open a second investigation into him. Sayeed resigned Aug. 1.
UW-Madison says it was the first among University of Wisconsin System schools and ahead of many of its peers when it adopted a hostile and intimidating behavior policy in 2016.
