JHU SAIS administration pressures JHU-Newsletter to remove Vice Dean Chiedo Nwankwor’s name from article mentioning her inappropriate handling of OIE harassment complaint

JHU SAIS administration pressures JHU-Newsletter to remove Vice Dean Chiedo Nwankwor’s name from article mentioning her inappropriate handling of OIE harassment complaint

Recently, SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies) administration contacted The News-Letter and requested that they remove the name of Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Education Chiedo Nwankwor from the article titled “Students and Former Complainants Criticize OIE’s Investigative Process”:
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025/11/students-and-former-complainants-criticize-oies-investigative-process

In the article, an unnamed “administrator” is described as having CC’d Career Services and multiple university offices in response to a complaint, thereby revealing the complainant’s identity to parties not directly involved in the case. The administrator referenced in my case is Vice Dean Chiedo Nwankwor.

The article described that Vice Dean Nwankwor revealed, by email, my real name and identity, and the details of the OIE complaint that I made, to SAIS Career Services and multiple university officials. This is seriously inappropriate. OIE complaints on misconduct are supposed to be handled with confidentiality. “Sharing a student’s identity with parties completely uninvolved in handling OIE complaints is a serious violation of this.

SAIS Career Services is the office in SAIS that introduces students to employers. Revealing the student’s OIE complaint under real name to Career Services can bias the student in their eyes, and expose the student to reputational or professional harm with employers. This is a potential retaliatory act by the University towards the student.

For further context, these three posts contain what has transpired so far, which outlines my experience and OIE’s mishandling of the complaint in detail for anyone interested:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/sais/comments/1kash12/cautionary_warning_about_professor_david/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/jhu/comments/1lzxofp/jhus_oie_process_and_follow_up_to_cautionary/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/jhu/comments/1pmqa8d/jhu_newsletter_office_of_institutional_equitys/

There is documented evidence regarding Vice Dean Nwankwor’s communication to Career Services. I have that email, because I was CC’ed in the original email from Vice Dean Nwankwor dated August 15, 2025, which she sent to Career Services, several other University offices, SAIS Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Peter Lewis, and Alyse Campbell, Associate Director of the Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response unit. Right after that email was sent, Alyse responded to me acknowledging that Career Services had been included in the correspondence, providing further confirmation of that exchange.

There is also documentation showing that this email followed earlier correspondence containing details of the OIE complaint, meaning that all recipients had visibility into the full details and my name of the complaint.

I also sent multiple follow-up emails to Vice Dean Nwankwor and SAIS asking why Career Services was included, which both have chosen to completely ignore, and has provided no explanation to me to this day.

Note that when SAIS pressured the removal of Vice Dean Nwankwor’s name to JHU Newsletter, they never disputed that Vice Dean Nwankwor disclosed details of the OIE case and my name to unrelated parties and Career Services without my consent.

Revealing my identity as the complainant in an OIE matter raises serious concerns about confidentiality, judgment, and fairness. The subsequent effort by SAIS to have the student newspaper remove reporting on this conduct further raises serious concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability within JHU.