Tenured professor fired despite being cleared by Title IX investigation
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"In the end, I—a tenured full professor, a former departmental chair of philosophy, and the founding director of a million-dollar university center on campus, was forced to resign under threat of termination—even though I was cleared of the Title IX charges."
Horror story, and it happens too often in the US.
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This guy didn’t even get fired. There’s one firing and the school is screwed.
"In the end, I—a tenured full professor, a former departmental chair of philosophy, and the founding director of a million-dollar university center on campus, was forced to resign under threat of termination—even though I was cleared of the Title IX charges."
Horror story, and it happens too often in the US. -
He resigned. Should have sacked up, hired a lawyer, and dared them to fire him.
Sadly this is true.
That’s the thing. You’d think academics, after making it through grad school and surviving the tenure grind, would be tougher. We’ve spent 5-6 years (16 in some cases counting AP to associate) surviving for minimal reward. Another couple of years walking around with your middle finger up at the provost is nothing.
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Canceling the son of POTUS is a bit different from canceling ordinary people.
He rails against cancel culture here.
Yet he signed letter protesting Trump Jr being invited for a campus speech.
http://www.thedentonite.com/culture/an-open-letter-from-unt-faculty-on-donald-trump-jr-and-the-kuehne-speaker-series -
Wow:
"The letter said that an inquiry had been opened in June, prompted by an anonymous complaint concerning two departments on campus, one of which was mine. That inquiry uncovered an allegation that I had sexually harassed a graduate student in 2006. No information was given about the source or content of this allegation. The letter, dated September 17th, said nothing about disciplinary action. What had changed between then and my sudden removal on the 29th? The email that arrived later that day provided no explanation."
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That was a very well written article which everyone should read.
Should be in the orientation instead of doing diversity training. This is actually helpful.
It could be part of diversity training. They can market it as "here's a bad guy's take" and everyone will agree vocally while silently taking notes.
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"Canceling the son of POTUS is a bit different from canceling ordinary people."
It's still trying to block free-speech. Remember how this started: protests that blocked far-right speakers from being able to speak on campus, even when invited by student organizations. Once they won that battle, they started searching for other targets.
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Did any of you read the whole article? He hired lawyers right away, and the school held an internal hearing after he was cleared of the title IX charge. The provost was the prosecutor. When it was clear he was going to lose, he resigned instead of being fired.
He did, I just think he didn’t do it fast enough, and frankly tired of the ordeal and didn’t force the Provost’s hand.
Why didnt he hire a lawyer????
They would have paid him hundreds of thousands in compensation for getting rid of him
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Yeah. My point is that if the provost fires him he takes it to court and wins.
Did any of you read the whole article? He hired lawyers right away, and the school held an internal hearing after he was cleared of the title IX charge. The provost was the prosecutor. When it was clear he was going to lose, he resigned instead of being fired.
He did, I just think he didn’t do it fast enough, and frankly tired of the ordeal and didn’t force the Provost’s hand.
Why didnt he hire a lawyer????
They would have paid him hundreds of thousands in compensation for getting rid of him