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 doesnt 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.
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Pachamama
(17,013 posts)Glad my Alma Mater finally did something about Wax .she is a disgrace to the law.and decency
Lonestarblue
(11,807 posts)Thats assuming shes also a right-wing religious extremist who longs for the US to be a theocracy.
Demovictory9
(33,752 posts)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)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.
Its 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.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)groundloop
(12,260 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)Or attend elsewhere.
ShazzieB
(18,641 posts)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.
padfun
(1,856 posts)it's not battery but rather, "Performance Art"?
JoseBalow
(5,138 posts)appleannie1
(5,203 posts)Figarosmom
(2,612 posts)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)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.
Mysterian
(5,193 posts)Idiot should be fired.
Prairie Gates
(3,032 posts)Not bad for sitting on your ass for a year.
Nice sabbatical if you can get it.