Minnesota paid nearly $300,000 to settle claims of sexual harassment brought by two women against former Gophers AD Norwood Teague, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
The women brought separate claims against Teague. Both of them were high-level members of University of Minnesota president Eric Kaler‘s staff. Though they were not named in the settlement documents, the documents match public testimony given by former deputy chief of staff Ann Aronson and former special assistant to the president Erin Dady. Minnesota also paid a $175,000 settlement after Teague was accused of gender discrimination in 2013.
Teague admitted to coming on to the women at a university retreat in 2015 after he had “entirely too much to drink.”
Dady agreed to receive a severance package including one year’s salary of $181,630, plus $25,000 in legal fees and medical coverage for two years. She now works as the chief marketing officer for a local bank. Aronson remains with the school as chief marketing officer and received a one-time payment of $50,000.
Minnesota hired Mark Coyle away from Syracuse in 2016 to replace Teague.
