CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Sun-Times
BY FRANCINE KNOWLES Religion Reporter May 6, 2014
Loyola University Chicago is hiring a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, who faced allegations that he sexually harassed two colleagues while employed as a professor at the University of Dayton, according to an online higher education publication.
An investigation of Miguel H. Diaz, conducted by outside counsel at the University of Dayton last year, found “there was reasonable cause to believe” that conduct by Diaz “constituted sexual harassment that created an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment,” InsideHigherEd.com reported, quoting confidential letters obtained by the website and posted online. The accusers are a couple and work as professors at the university, according to InsideHigherEd.com. The letters are signed by the Catholic university’s General Counsel, Mary Ann Poirier; and Provost Joseph E. Saliba; and dated July 22, 2013.
The accusing professors’ names were redacted in the letters posted on InsideHigherEd.com. In Saliba’s letter, he notes the couple had “raised concerns that Dr. Diaz was sexually harassing you through various requests and references to explicitly sexual feelings.”
The letters informed the accusing professors that Diaz had been instructed to avoid any contact with them and was told he would be fired if another claim is brought against him and he is found to have violated the law or the university’s sexual harassment policy.
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