“Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute officials allegedly sought to suppress employee climate survey results that painted the Troy university in a negative light, according to an internal email obtained by the Times Union.
“RPI alumnus Howard Deutsch, whose company Quantisoft conducted the survey in July, emailed key faculty members about his findings after conversations with the university’s human resource officer, Curtis Powell, turned sour, he said.
"’In each of our meetings Curtis mentioned the need to present the survey findings in a positive manner,’ Deutsch wrote in his email to faculty. ‘In the end, I refused to put a positive spin on the very negative survey findings.’”