NY Times report: An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job.
Administrators suspended the instructor, Jessica Adams, in October from teaching the course, “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice,” after Senator Jim Banks, an ally of President Trump, contacted the campus about the lecture. In May, the university said it would not reappoint Ms. Adams, a lecturer who did not have tenure, “after a careful review” of her work. Her employment will end this month, according to a May 22 letter from Latha Ramchand, the university’s executive vice president. The letter did not offer more detail and a spokesman declined to comment beyond saying that the university could not discuss personnel matters. Ms. Adams was investigated under a controversial law passed in Indiana meant to further “intellectual diversity” and prevent students from being subjected to political views unrelated to the course. Professors and academic freedom groups have decried the law, saying it chills free-flowing conversations in classrooms and amounts to state-sponsored censorship. “Universities should not bow to outside pressure to terminate faculty merely because others dislike what they teach,” Zach Greenberg, a lawyer with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free-speech group representing Ms. Adams, said in a statement. Michael Novick 323-636-7388https://www.antiracist.org http://www.change-links.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42123): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42123 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119900699/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
