Garth Saloner, the dean of Stanford's graduate business school who resigned in September amid a lawsuit by a former professor, is relying on Edelman for crisis PR counsel.
Saloner led the business school since 2009 and is slated to step down at the end of the academic year in 2016.
A former professor has sued the university for discrimination and Saloner, who reportedly had a relationship with the professor's estranged wife, was caught in the middle of the legal tussle. He has called the suit "baseless and protracted" and said he quit because the ongoing litigation adn media interest would be a distraction to the school.
Fortune reported that Edelman executive VP Kathryn Kranhold is advising Saloner amid the scrutiny. Kranhold is a former Brunswick Group director and senior VP of corporate comms. for Disney who started out in journalism.
Edelman has advised other universities in crisis in recent years, including Penn State in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, the University of North Carolina as it faced allegations of coddling athletes academically, and the Univ. of Michigan after the resignation of its athletic director and football coach last year.
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