CONNECTICUT — UConn has terminated the employment of Stamford history professor Ricardo Salazar-Rey following an internal investigation into communications with an undergraduate student, NBC Connecticut reported October 21, citing a termination letter.
The outlet said the university’s Office for Inclusion and Civil Rights began investigating after an April complaint. According to the letter as described by NBC, investigators found sustained communications extending beyond academic subjects that became unwelcome and increasingly personal.
The university determined that the communications, considered in the context of the faculty-student power relationship, interfered with the student’s educational environment and violated university policies, NBC reported.
Salazar-Rey disputed the office’s findings at a hearing, according to NBC’s account of the termination letter. The outlet also reported that he took responsibility for his actions at that hearing; that description should not be read as agreement with every finding.
The report follows NBC’s October 9 coverage, when the university said Salazar-Rey was on administrative leave while the investigation and procedures under its faculty collective bargaining agreement were pending.
This is a report about a university employment decision and internal policy findings, not a criminal conviction. Eastern CT News has reviewed NBC’s report but has not independently obtained the termination letter. The student’s identity and private messages are omitted.