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groundloop

(12,260 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:20 PM Sep 29

University imposes a one-year suspension on law professor over comments on race

Source: ABC News

The University of Pennsylvania law school says it is imposing a one-year suspension at half-pay and other sanctions along with a public reprimand on a tenured professor over her comments about race in recent years.

The university said Professor Amy Wax — who has questioned the academic performance of Black students, invited a white nationalist to speak to her class and suggested the country would be better off with less Asian immigration — will also lose her named chair and summer pay in perpetuity and must note in public appearances that she speaks for herself, not as a university or law school member. The university has not, however, fired her or stripped her of tenure.

Wax told the New York Sun after the announcement that she intends to stay at the school as a “conservative presence on campus.” She called allegations of mistreatment of students “totally bogus and made up" and said her treatment amounted to “performance art” highlighting that the administration “doesn’t want conservatives like me on campus.”

The university said in a notice posted in its almanac last week that a faculty hearing board concluded after a three-day hearing in May of last year that Wax had engaged in “flagrant unprofessional conduct," citing what it called “a history of making sweeping and derogatory generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status.” Wax was also accused of “breaching the requirement that student grades be kept private by publicly speaking about the grades of law students by race” making “discriminatory and disparaging statements," some in the classroom, "targeting specific racial, ethnic, and other groups with which many students identify.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/university-imposes-year-suspension-law-professor-comments-race-114331579

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Pachamama

(17,013 posts)
1. A Good Start - but not enough...
Sun Sep 29, 2024, 10:23 PM
Sep 29

Glad my Alma Mater finally did something about Wax….she is a disgrace to the law.and decency

Lonestarblue

(11,807 posts)
8. She sounds like the kind of person Republicans would nominate for the Supreme Court.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 12:47 AM
Sep 30

That’s assuming she’s also a right-wing religious extremist who longs for the US to be a theocracy.

Demovictory9

(33,752 posts)
11. She's said too much of the quiet part outloud. There are long talks
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 01:59 AM
Sep 30

By her online.. she basically says that Black's will never be in areas like high finance because of intelligence factors..laments thay there were jobs that gave Black people dignity (manual labor)

She's one of the most racist persons out there. Too much even for GOP

Pachamama

(17,013 posts)
14. She would be top of list for them - except for that she is over 70
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:52 AM
Sep 30

But she is a very scary person - brilliant sick mind and very dangerous - a Harvard Medical School educated Neurologist who went on to get her law degree. The right wing loved her and white nationalists have also used her medical background to go in the direction of Eugenics and race inferiority.

It’s shocking what she has allowed and said in her “teachings” and because she was tenured it was a thorny issue. Many at Penn who find her reprehensible but are conflicted because once a University starts removing tenured professors based on teachings that it gets into free speech and that it could be in future that progressive liberal speech be targeted.

For me - this was pure hate speech she was teaching and that has no place in education and to equate it with progressive thought is a straw man argument.

ShazzieB

(18,641 posts)
5. She is a law school proofessor.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 12:12 AM
Sep 30

People who want to be lawyers can't just change msjors without changing their career plans entirely. I don't think transferring to a different law school in midstream is that easy, either.

Choosing a different law school from the start sounds like a good idea, but it's going to be too late for a lot of people to do that.

Figarosmom

(2,612 posts)
9. Wow
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 01:02 AM
Sep 30

How'd she get tenure? Did she keep her racist ideas to herself until trump gave permission to proudly displY them as " conservative" tendencies?

Demovictory9

(33,752 posts)
12. No..she has been racist pro Trump. One of her issues is...
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 02:03 AM
Sep 30

Who can claim responsibility for the creation of America. Has a view that there are " legacy" whites, like her, only 2nd generation but can claim the success of USA simply by being white. But of course 10 generation Black's can't.

She is a trip.

Prairie Gates

(3,032 posts)
15. Half pay for a tenured law professor at UPenn is going to run about $100,000
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:57 AM
Sep 30

Not bad for sitting on your ass for a year.

Nice sabbatical if you can get it.

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