JOHN JAY COLLEGE–Professor Ric Curtis will return to teaching at John Jay College for the first time since allegations against him surfaced in 2018 concerning his conduct on campus, which include his alleged violation of CUNY’s Sexual Misconduct and Drug and Alcohol policy.
According to the Fall 2025 schedule, Curtis will be teaching an in-person section of ANT 100: The Ethnography of Youth and Justice in New York City on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:50 a.m to 12:05 p.m.
Curtis’s return to teaching was first announced by President Karol V. Mason in an August 2024 statement, in which she explained that the allegations against Curtis were based on his conduct.
Mason continued to indicate in her statement that CUNY administrators launched an investigation as a result of the allegations and found “unacceptable, unprofessional conduct by the professors that violated CUNY policies, including the Policy on Sexual Misconduct and Policy on Drugs and Alcohol.”
The investigation of Curtis concluded and rather than termination, the arbitrator, James Darby, decided unpaid suspension for the 2024-25 academic year and training on CUNY policies were the appropriate decisions.
