Academic Freedom Verdict-- U of Ill Mistreated Catholic Professor But The U of Ill can continue to abuse him. What?
In typical double talk "A special faculty panel investigating an
academic freedom dispute at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign has finished its inquiry with findings that
expressly avoid saying whether there were grounds for the religion
department to stop employing a controversial adjunct who taught
about Roman Catholicism and whose anti-gay e-mail offended many
students."
After issuing a report that agrees that a professor of
Catholic studies who was critical, as a Catholic, of homosexual
practices, was abused and that he was mistreated, the same
committee attacks the content of the email and also says there
might be grounds to get rid of him anyway.
Nice work for bankrupt and completely corrupt academic dictators.
Inside Higher Ed reports "The report is notable for documenting a significant degree of involvement by the university administration in the initial handling of the case. And the report suggests that the case illustrates the problems of the lack of clearly understood due process rights for all adjuncts at the university."
The report over the instructor and his comments is unlikely to end debate over the situation. A lawyer for the instructor applauded the panel for raising due process issues and affirming that instructors shouldn't lose their jobs for offending students. But he questioned the fairness of the panel's discussion of the instructor's references to utilitarianism and vowed to protect the instructor's rights to continued employment.
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