Although this guy isn’t. He didn’t grow up with that.
He didn’t grow up with it, but he was a college student — and a psychology major! — through the thick of it. Guy is the same age as most of the cast of The Big Chill.
He knows better.
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I tell my students that there’s a difference between knowing something and understanding it. Knowing something means you can repeat it if asked about it; understanding means you can actually apply it to accomplish things.
I suspect that this professor “knows” that this behavior is unacceptable, and if asked “Should a faculty member respond this way to a student?” would say “No”. However, he doesn’t understand that to the extent that it can actually have any effect on his own behavior. It has to be internalized to the point that it guides your thoughts and actions, and I suspect that hasn’t happened here.
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He knows better (or should), regardless, but his value system he grew up with was instilled before that.
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It tells me what he feels secure doing. As you say, it wasn’t an impulse, and he felt confident a paper-trail wouldn’t be a problem.
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One would have thought that being 75 years old, he would have been used to seeing mini skirts back in the sixties when they were extremely mini.
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Yes, but there’s being used to seeing them, and then there’s having a normal, redblooded man feel inspired to fantasize about the hussies wearing them.
/s 
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We had a “star” professor of sorts at my college, who taught (coincidence?) Psych 101 to hundreds and hundreds of students at a time. He was caught in several cases of sexual harassment, and his punishment was that he was no longer allowed to teach his giant Psych 101 class. He was still on the faculty. Did it affect his pay, at least? I have no idea, but given how hard most professors try to get out of teaching, it almost seemed like a reward.
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Nah, the fight will go on forever. It’s fight or die. So we fight. Forever. If we don’t then in five or 10 years FOX is filming stonings and playing them over morning TV to mortify the next generation and OF is mainly porn of war rape and CP 
So we fight! Forever! And it never ends.
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Fair, deleted
Precisely the same situation at my undergrad state school (though the largest Psy 101 this fellow taught was likely no more than 75 students) and the school did exactly the same thing: lighten the prof’s 101 caseload and assign him to more of the plum graduate classes. Ugh.
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All:
I have word why the teacher have nothing happen outside of a slap on the hand:
Tenure.
If the administration actually does something, it’ll likely be that the teacher will be ‘asked to retire’ with full pension.
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Tenure does not prevent universities from firing a professor for sexual harassment. Institutional prejudice does.
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Exactly. Tenured professors are still employees of the univerity and subject to penalties for violating university employee policy. This just happened at one of the local colleges here and the professor in question was fired and referred to local law enforcement for investigation. Charges weren’t filed, but when he tried to sue the college for wrongful termination and defamation, that effort went nowhere.
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sounds like this 75 year old is spending WAY too much time thinking about the ladies and those fantasy inducting soft parts
creepy
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