The University of Minnesota will begin an outside investigation of its athletic department and its former director, Norwood Teague, who resigned because of sexual harassment complaints, a school official said.
Teague resigned last week, prompting reports that he had groped two female employees, made inappropriate comments and sent lewd text messages. A third woman, a reporter at The Minneapolis Star Tribune who covers Gophers basketball, later came forward with an account of sexual harassment by Teague in separate episodes in 2013.
The university’s Board of Regents and President Eric W. Kaler agreed to hire an outside lawyer to determine whether Teague sexually harassed other women and to evaluate the culture inside the department after Teague’s three-year tenure, the board chairman Dean Johnson said.