A former Penn State assistant professor is stepping up his allegations against the university and several former coworkers after filing a federal court suit against them earlier this year.
Earlier this week, Michael Nassry filed an amended complaint to his original federal court suit which was first filed this past January.
This complaint contains more details on allegations of a hostile work environment that Nassry says he faced while working at Penn State from 2015 to 2021.
According to Nassry, he was the victim of sexual harassment and threats while having some of his work plagiarized, and then says he faced retaliation for reporting a coworker on suspicions of embezzling research funding.
He claims his complaints to supervisors at Penn State fell on deaf ears, even at the university's Office of Affirmative Action and Office of Ethics and Compliance.
Nassry was an assistant research professor and taught classes in the university's agriculture and earth and mineral science departments.
The harassment allegations stem from what Nassry terms "unwanted sexual advances" that continued for several years from a female coworker.
He says the plagiarism complaints were termed a miscommunication.
Nassry says Penn State's lack of action to his complaints led him to begin looking for work elsewhere in 2020 and that he was being forced out.
He eventually left the university in June of 2021.
Penn State asked the federal judge presiding over the case to dismiss Nassry's suit, but the judge so far has refused, ruling that it's a moot point with Nassry's newly filed amended complaint.
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