Weeks of turmoil over sexual harassment claims at a top New Zealand university have intensified, with another in the senior management ranks accused, and further claims of a cover-up. A senior AUT professor deluged colleagues for years with unwanted talk about his intimate life and pictures of Japanese bondage practice - and his actions have damaged the university’s international reputation, sources claim. The university’s pro vice-chancellor international, Nigel Hemmington, is the second member of AUT’s senior management to face allegations of inappropriate behaviour, a major Stuff investigation has found. A formal complaint about Hemmington was laid by an employee in September 2019, and then buried by top management when the complainant left AUT shortly afterwards. A partner from the Netherlands was “visibly shaken” and asked how someone “so open about personal matters could be responsible for the international portfolio at AUT”.

Source: Stuff June 20, 2020 16:52 UTC