{"id":17831,"date":"2020-02-17T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:06","slug":"coe-si-react-to-allegations-of-misconduct-by-computer-science-professor-jason-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/coe-si-react-to-allegations-of-misconduct-by-computer-science-professor-jason-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"CoE, SI react to allegations of misconduct by computer science professor Jason Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png\" alt=\"clinc logo\" class=\"wp-image-17833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-286x200.png 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-200x140.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-60x42.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The faculty at U-M\u2019s computer science and engineering department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/2\/14\/21138326\/university-of-michigan-faculty-clinc-ai-jason-mars-allegations-leave-of-absence\">wrote a letter calling for professor Jason Mars to take a leave of absence<\/a>,\u00a0following an investigation from\u00a0<em>The Verge<\/em>\u00a0into his behavior as CEO of Clinc, an AI startup with ties to the school. Michigan\u2019s School of Information also said it was suspending its recruiting relationship with Clinc due to Mars\u2019 alleged conduct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The allegations outlined in\u00a0<em>The Verge<\/em>\u2019s investigation centered on Mars\u2019 role as CEO of Clinc, an AI company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. According to 13 current and former employees, Mars has allegedly engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct with Clinc employees and clients. Two of these allegations resulted in employees filing legal claims against the company.\u00a0Mars has stepped down as CEO of Clinc, but is not on leave from the university and his employment status has not changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faculty at U-M\u2019s computer science and engineering department wrote a letter calling for professor Jason Mars to take a leave of absence,\u00a0following an investigation from\u00a0The Verge\u00a0into his behavior as CEO of Clinc, an AI startup with ties to the school. Michigan\u2019s School of Information also said it was suspending its recruiting relationship with Clinc due to Mars\u2019\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/coe-si-react-to-allegations-of-misconduct-by-computer-science-professor-jason-mars\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,290,725,199,260],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ai","tag-coe","tag-fintech","tag-law","tag-si"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",600,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-200x140.png",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-286x200.png",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",600,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",600,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",600,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",600,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",600,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/clinc-lockup-logo-gray-large.png",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The faculty at U-M\u2019s computer science and engineering department wrote a letter calling for professor Jason Mars to take a leave of absence,\u00a0following an investigation from\u00a0The Verge\u00a0into his behavior as CEO of Clinc, an AI startup with ties to the school. Michigan\u2019s School of Information also said it was suspending its recruiting relationship with Clinc&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17838,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions\/17838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}