Following up on my previous posts:

• Scott Gerber (Ohio Northern), DEI Brings Kafka To My Law School (May 10, 2023)
• Law.com, Tenured Law Professor Pulled From His Classroom Faces Termination. He Wants To Know Why?

Law.com, ONU Seeks to Dismiss Tenured Professor Accused of Bullying:

Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law continues to seek the dismissal of a tenured professor—removed from his classroom in the middle of teaching in April—for allegedly bullying and harassing junior faculty.

Scott Gerber, a law professor at ONU Law since 2001, was pulled from his classroom, banned from campus and allegedly forced to sign a separation agreement.

Gerber said in May that he didn’t know the reason why the school wants to terminate him, and he filed a complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Hardin County on June 30 against the university; Melissa Baumann, president of ONU; Charles H. Rose, dean of the law school (who received a five-year contract extension earlier this month); and five others, mostly ONU professors.

Gerber’s court action followed Baumann sending him a letter on June 28 stating that she was recommending to the Hearing Committee on Dismissal of Faculty that he be dismissed from his position as a tenured faculty member with ONU, according to Baumann’s letter included in court records.

An investigation into Gerber—of which he was notified when it began in January— started after a series of complaints and letters of concern were received alleging that Gerber was engaging in a pattern of bullying, and abusive and discriminatory behavior, according to the defendant’s motion to dismiss.

The school claims that Gerber has committed “grave misconduct, engaging in a continuing and pervasive pattern of bullying, harassment, and verbal abuse of untenured, junior faculty, and other untenured faculty that has resulted in wasted resources, a hostile working environment, and ultimately, has contributed to faculty choosing to leave the university,” according to court documents.

Further, he is charged with his conduct being detrimental to the welfare of the university and creating an inappropriate and threatening workplace environment, which causes “serious disruption of normal academic operations,” according to the bill of particulars in court records.

Specifically, he is accused of targeting law school faculty members including, but not limited to, Dallan Flake, Melissa Kidder and Lauren Newell.