When anti-Israel and anti-America professor Corinna Mullin returns to the classroom this fall, she will join a rogues gallery of controversial and even criminal professors employed over the years by taxpayer-funded City University of New York.
An unhinged Hunter College arts professor held a machete to a Post reporter’s neck and made wild threats that she was going to “chop” him up when he knocked on the door of her Bronx apartment a day after she went viral for cursing out anti-abortion students on campus.
Shellyne Rodriguez was charged with menacing and harassment in the caught on video incident, and fired by CUNY.
Four professors at John Jay College of Criminal Justice — which, ironically, trains cops — allegedly ran a lawless den of depravity dubbed “the swamp” where they sold and used drugs and preyed on students, according to 2018 sexual harassment complaints.
Accused in the scandal were adjunct professor Leonardo Dominguez, former anthropology department chair Anthony Marcus, sociology professor and former department chair Barry Spunt, and anthropology professor and former chair of several departments, Ric Curtis.
Alleged victims Naomi Haber and Claudia Cojocaru filed complaints with John Jay’s Title IX office in May 2018, detailing horrific allegations that included rape and drugs.
Curtis — who was known for his drug research, particularly heroin — allegedly sold drugs out of his John Jay office, according to both complaints.
The professors denied the allegations and filed counterclaims for defamation, and were placed on leave in September 2018. Spunt and Marcus retired amid John Jay’s investigation and Dominguez never returned to the school. The DA’s office also launched a probe, but no criminal charges were brought.
In 2021, John Jay paid Haber 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.
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.
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.
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.