Two senior faculty members have resigned from Californian architecture school SCI-Arc after an investigation was launched into the labour practices of the school's staff this spring.
Undergraduate chair Tom Wiscombe and history and theory coordinator Marrikka Trotter have both resigned from their positions at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, which is better known as SCI-Arc.
Allegations "didn't align with the values SCI-Arc"
The resignations come after an external investigation was launched by the Los Angeles-based school's board of trustees following allegations of labour exploitation by the two faculty members.
"On behalf of the board of trustees, I am pleased to announce that an outside, independent firm has completed a thorough inquiry into allegations that didn't align with the values SCI-Arc has established in its first half-century," said chairman of the board Kevin Ratner. The resignations, as well as changes to hiring and other school policies, were announced in two letters sent out by the school.
"Over the past few months, SCI-Arc has been actively addressing internal issues of great importance to the overall health of the school," said SCI-Arc director Hernán Díaz Alonso in one of the letters.
"First and foremost, our focus is on the experience and education of our students."

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