A University of Connecticut department head has resigned from the school after an audit showed he approved travel expenses and compensatory time of more than $100,000 for his administrative assistant to accompany him on trips to places including Dublin and South Korea over the past few years.
Ram D. Gopal, a professor who was the head of the Operations and Information Management Department within the School of Business, was accused by UConn officials of having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and violating the school’s travel policies by taking his administrative assistant on three trips and also padding her compensatory time in 2016 and 2017.
The internal audit revealed that Gopal and his assistant, Melissa Burk, traveled to Dublin, Los…
