The University of Hawaii-Manoa has reached an out-of-court settlement with a professor, Michael D’Andrea, who sued the university after he was banished from the campus and forbidden to contact his colleagues and students.

According to the Honolulu Star Bulletin, the university paid Mr. D’Andrea, a professor of counseling education, $30,000 to cover his legal fees and court costs. The institution also wrote a letter to the professor’s lawyer saying that, “in the future, the University of Hawaii will be more careful in issuing restrictions regarding university-employee contact and access to the university’s facilities,” the newspaper reported.

As The Chronicle reported in June, Mr. D’Andrea was banned from the campus in March after the university cited him for “alleged intimidating, hostile, and bullying behavior.”

Mr. D’Andrea denied he was hostile, bullying, or intimidating. Instead, he called himself a whistle-blower. Over the years, he has filed a pile of grievances against the university, complaining about racism, sexism, campus crime, rising tuition, dormitory safety, facilities for disabled students, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to name a few.

The university, citing the confidentiality required in personnel matters, declined to elaborate on its reasons for barring Mr. D’Andrea from the campus. Though Mr. D’Andrea is now free to speak with students and professors, and to visit the campus (though not the school of education), he remains suspended from his job with pay. —John Gravois