REPORT: Machete-Wielding Professor Fired From New Teaching Job
A university professor who was previously fired for an armed confrontation with a reporter was also fired from his new teaching position in January, the New York Post reported. Shereen Rodriguez, who previously allegedly threatened a reporter with a machete, was fired from her new position as an adjunct professor at New York's Cooper Union […]
Remembering Jazz icon, Yale professor Willie Ruff
I usually write about politics and related topics, but let me digress for a moment. The University of Alabama lost a humble legend on Christmas Eve. Willie Ruff was his name and we were friends. I had the pleasure of meeting Willie more than 30 years ago when he was a host and producer at […]
UA professor & Chicano activist Roberto ‘Cintli’ Rodriguez dead at 69
Roberto Rodriguez, an award-winning Chicano activist, author, and professor of Mexican-American studies at the University of Arizona, died Monday of heart failure in Teotihuacan, Mexico. he was 69 years old. Rodriguez was a journalist, author, lecturer, and a beloved professor at UA. He authored his four books and numerous essays, poems and columns. Rodriguez was […]
Pima County Attorney’s Office release evidence from deadly shooting of UA professor | Police
Tucson (KVOA) — News 4 Tucson has obtained never-before-seen video from the October shooting that killed a University of Arizona professor. We got our first look inside the University of Arizona during the October shooting. Tucson (KVOA) — One dead, another in custody after college shooting… News 4 Tucson received evidence from the Pima […]
Professor Under Fire After Allegedly Claiming Her Professional Life Would Have Been Easier If She Were Black
A prominent academic was criticized for saying at a conference for female historians in July that her professional life would have been easier if she was black. Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California Lois Banner reportedly said in Berkshire Conference for Women HistoriansTriennale event she co-founded in the 1970s, according to. Daily Beast. “Well, the […]
Students Pressured University Not To Hire Professor Who Questioned ‘Diversity’ Statements. Then He Didn’t Get The Job
Yoel Inver, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has been called down by dozens of psychology students after making statements questioning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Denied a job at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Inver told the Daily Caller News Foundation. As Inver was in negotiations with UCLA […]
‘Unacceptable’: Gender Studies Professor Defends Giving Student A Zero Grade For Use Of ‘Biological Women’
A gender studies professor defended his decision to give students a failing grade on an assignment for using the term “biological woman,” arguing that the term perpetuated “systemic harm.” claimed. Olivia Krollczyk, a University of Cincinnati student, described how an anonymous professor gave her zero marks on a task she claimed unfairly favored biological men […]
Mayo Clinic Retaliates Against Professor Who Strayed From ‘Prescribed Messaging’ On COVID, Trans Athletes
The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (MCCMS) is not acknowledging that anesthesiology professor Dr. banned him from speaking to journalists and denied him an annual salary increase. A letter from the Mayo Clinic published by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) called it a “prescribed message.” Joiner Discussed In May 2022, […]
Professor Alleges Colleague Terminated For Sharing Conservative Beliefs, Sues California College
A history professor claimed his colleague was fired from a California university for sharing conservative political beliefs, according to a lawsuit filed June 1. The Free Speech Institute is acting on behalf of Bakersfield University Professor Damon Johnson. lawsuit The text claims that colleague Professor Matthew Garrett was fired by Bakersfield University in April after […]
Pennsylvania professor photographs first radiation belt outside solar system
Photo credit: Chuck Carter, Melody Kao, The Heising Simmons Foundation Lewisburg, Union County (WBRE/WYOU) — in April, Jackie Vilasen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University, has discovered a planet orbiting a star. Just a month later, she was part of another team that made yet another discovery: the first radiation belt outside […]
