“Retreat rights” are supposed to provide job security to tenured professors who take administration positions, but sometimes they are used as a Get Out of Jail Free card. When a Title IX investigation at Cal Poly Humboldt found a dean, John Lee, sexually harassed two colleagues, California State University attorneys viewed his retreat rights as a shield that rendered him unfireable. Six years later, Lee is a tenured professor at Humboldt teaching elementary education courses and earning the maximum salary at the same campus as the women he was found to have groped. Read more at the link in our bio.