er and Cojocaru $164,499.74 each. All allegations against Curtis were dropped except retaliation.

In 2024 John Jay allowed Curtis to come back and teach.

In a separate scandal, associate professor and chair of the Africana Studies department, Carlton Jama Adams, was accused of exposing a grad student, Judith Sandrine Dikambi, to  a barrage of unrelenting and daily xenophobic, sexist and vulgar remarks about her African heritage,  according to a 2019 lawsuit.

But Adams walked away without punishment - as he continues to teach at the school.

7 Professor Carlton Jama Adams was accused of sexual harassment in another lawsuit, but remains at the school. CUNY

A judge dismissed the case in 2024, ordering the state of New York to pay Dikambi and his lawyers $225,000 on behalf of CUNY and Adams.

Allyson Friedman, a biology professor at Hunter College, inadvertently interrupted a black student's concerns about the potential shutdown of her Upper West Side school to say  they're too dumb to know they're in a bad school  during a hot mic moment.

She apologized after sparking widespread fury, and continues to be employed by CUNY.

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The former head of the college's Center on Media, Crime and Justice Stephen Handelman was accused of turning an intern more than 50 years younger than him into a  sexual play toy. 

The anonymous alleged victim filed a lawsuit against him in 2022. The case was dismissed in August 2023.

Handelman was placed on a leave and hasn't returned to the school since.

7 Leonardo Dominguez was allegedly one of the professors involved in  the swamp  scandal.

7 Marcus Anthony was a sociology professor and left amid the scandal.

7 Barry Spunt retired amid the investigation.

Erin Thompson, self-described as America's only professor of art crime in her John Jay bio, once told rioters how to topple statues  faster. 

When protestors tore down the 10-foot Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota State Capitol by in June 2020, Thompson tweeted out:  I'm a professor who studies the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage and I just have to say…use a chain instead of a rope and it'll go faster. 

In 2017, economics professor Michael Isaacson was axed after posting online that it was a  privilege to teach future dead cops. 

In a bizarre outburst, CUNY's former vendor integrity director and adjunct professor at John Jay Vincent Green allegedly yanked a female student's hair in 2018 and was subsequently ousted.