A female professor from the University of Colorado who sent students 'intensely personal text messages' and 'requests to meet off-campus' has been placed on leave and banned from university grounds.

Amy Wilkins, an associate professor of sociology, is accused of 'a pattern of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct that spans more than a decade,' according the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Wilkins was 'placed on administrative leave on October 1, banned from the campus, and ordered not to contact seven people,' while university officials investigate.

Amy Wilkins, (pictured), an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, is accused of 'a pattern of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct'

The professor is reportedly being investigated for sexual misconduct and harassment of people she supervised. She is accused of 'pressurizing students to engage in inappropriate sexual conduct and conversations.'

According to her online resume, between 2014 and 2016, she was also the sociology department's graduate program director.

Wilkins did not respond to repeated emails and phone calls from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

CU spokesman Ryan Huff confirmed that Wilkins was on paid administrative leave. He declined to comment further, citing personnel privacy laws and policies. 'Excluding someone from campus is a decision made on a case-by-case basis,' he said.

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, one student who met Wilkins in the fall of 2006, when she was a junior sociology major, has spoken about chatting with the professor after class and dropping in on her during office hours.

She has accused Wilkins of kissing her and said the relationship 'intensely skyrocketed.'

Wilkins has been placed on 'administrative leave, banned from the campus and ordered not to contact seven people'

'It became physical, she said, and Wilkins talked with her about her sex life.'

'When gossip began circulating about them during the student's spring class with Wilkins, her professor became more distant.'

Another graduate student 'said the professor tried to engage her in discussions about Wilkins’s own sex life.'

Wilkins was also said to invite students to meet up in bars.

CU's Sociology Department is no stranger to controversy. In 2017, the department chair Don Grant stepped down after allegations by a woman who said she'd been harassed by someone in the department. Grant said the allegations were false and denied he was stepping down because of them. No evidence of harassment was found by university officials.

The allegations against Wilkins span over a decade. University officials are investigating

In 2013 and 2014, the department hit national headlines concerning a class on deviance taught by Professor Patti Adler. Adler had employed undergraduate teaching assistants to portray various types of prostitutes and pimps. CU launched, then dropped, an investigation when no formal student complaints were filed. Adler has since retired.

The university has a conflict of interest policy in place that bans intimate relationships between faculty and students.