Chinese university strips dean of duties amid sexual misconduct investigation
- College takes action after allegations surface online about academic’s relationship with colleague and student
A Beijing university has stripped a faculty dean of his titles and relieved him of his duties after claims surfaced online that he sexually abused a woman colleague and harassed students.
Dai Songyuan, 52, dean of North China Electric Power University’s school of renewable energy, was relieved of his duties and stripped of the position on March 20, the university said in a statement on Thursday.
Dai was also no longer deputy secretary of the school’s Communist Party committee, it said.
“The university party committee is highly focused on the recent online media reports and complaints filed about the faculty dean surnamed Dai at our school,” the university said.
“This is being treated as a serious matter.”
It said the discipline watchdog of the university’s party branch was investigating the matter.
“Relevant offences continue to be investigated by the discipline inspection commission,” the statement said.