From Provost Coltrane’s letter: … the violation and its resulting impact on students in the law school and university outweighed free speech protections provided under the Constitution and our school’s academic freedom policies. The report on this stupid and offensive Halloween costume was finished 3 weeks ago, and is now…
Posts tagged as “blackfaced professor”
12/19/2016 update: Still no update from the UO administration on Professor Shurtz’s suspension or their investigation of her. Meanwhile FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has this: Student Cleared of Baseless Charges from Anti-Lynching Art Display ROCK HILL, S.C., Dec. 19, 2016—A Winthrop University student was found not responsible…
Thanks to a commenter for forwarding this email. Dear All, I’m writing to update you about changes and developments in the AAEO office. Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of matters brought to the AAEO office and a corresponding increase in the…
That would be the University of Virginia. The WaPo has the details here. He claimed the #blacklivesmatter movement which protests illegal killings by the police was like the KKK which committed lynchings. He learned the hard way how stupid, offensive, and racist this claim is, and he asked to be taken out of…
11/13/2016: In a podcast with a Black UO philosophy student, posted on the Daily Emerald website here: Professor Coleman’s undergraduate work was in theater. He started the Ethnic Studies program at UO. He says the administration should have thought before condemning Shurtz. He connects white emcees making money off blackface to white…
An account of a recent APLU meeting on this topic, from Inside Higher Ed here. A snippet: Page, the columnist, said, “I don’t want to call your generation coddled,” but went on to share an example of what he said “troubles me about political correctness.” He cited the reactions of students…
Some simple common sense – something which has often been missing from the previous statements on the halloween incident and the Trump election – from CAS Natural Science Assoc Dean Hal Sadofsky, here: I’m not someone who normally embraces symbols, but I want all our faculty, staff and students to feel safe and to…
11/11/2016: In the RG here, read it all: When Schill took the microphone near the end of the two-hour event, he agreed that “many students, faculty and staff do not feel included in the University of Oregon. Some have been victims of intentional discrimination. Some have been hurt by careless, thoughtless…
The post from CAS Dean Andrew Marcus on his blog is below. He doesn’t allow public comments, so I’ll respond here. You can too. There is also a change.org petition, with 232 signatures so far. To: CAS Dean <[email protected]> Andrew, your post is outrageous. Yes, dressing up in blackface, in…
Just kidding, that’s who Interim President Scott Coltrane and Interim General Counsel Doug Park hired to investigate me over the presidential archives, along with Hershner Hunter’s Amanda Walkup. President Schill and GC Kevin Reed have hired Edwin Harnden (http://www.barran.com/our-team/edwin-a-harnden/) and Shayda Le (http://www.barran.com/our-team/shayda-zaerpoor-le/) to investigate the professor over the blackface incident. They sure look…
Does UO policy prohibit faculty from wearing blackface? There’s training for that: Prohibited Discrimination Reporting Category: Diversity Department: VP Student Life Administration Description: Prohibited Discrimination Reporting: Understanding Your Role in Reporting Prohibited Discrimination and Harassment. In this introductory training, we will discuss University policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment, types of behavior…
11/4/2016 update: In case you are confused about why this blackface incident was so genuinely disturbing, Michael Hames-García (Professor of Ethnic Studies) has an excellent Open Letter to Pres Schill (and us all) in the Daily Emerald. Read it all, here is an excerpt: … Part of the problem with blackface is that white…