Iowa State U. Dismisses Professor in Sexual-Harassment Case

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

Iowa State University has fired a tenured professor who was found to have sexually harassed one student and sexually abused another.

Michael Simonson, who had worked at the university for 25 years, was fired last month from his post as a professor of curriculum and instruction. Iowa State's president, Martin C. Jischke, dismissed the professor based on the findings of a state

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