Posted on 08/27/2023 12:14:39 PM PDT by DFG
A tenured professor at the University of California, Riverside, who has long been accused of fabricating her Native American heritage, will be allowed to retire with full benefits and her title intact.
Ethnic Studies Professor Andrea Smith will reportedly be allowed to keep her current position through August of 2024. She will be allowed to teach classes until then.
The separation agreement comes in the wake of a recent complaint by more than a dozen faculty members, who accused her of violating academic integrity by lying about her Native American lineage.
The agreement is unusual both in that it will allow Smith to retain full benefits and status, and in that the university will pay Smith up to $5,000 to cover the legal costs she undertook to resolve the complaint.
Smith and the school signed the deal in January. Its terms avoid an investigation into the faculty complaint and allows Riverside to dodge the legal battle that could be the result of its move to fire a tenured professor.
Accusations that Smith lied repeatedly about her Native American heritage date to at least 2008, when she was denied tenure at the University of Michigan, prompting her supporters to rally around her.
Upon her departure, she will retain her benefits, and will be permitted to use the honorary emeritus title.
A spokesperson for the university said the agreement 'brings a timely conclusion to Professor Smith’s continued employment with the university.'
'Investigations of a tenured faculty member for alleged misconduct have potential for litigation and appeals, and can unfold over the course of years,' he added.
When allegations first surfaced in 2008, Smith's dissertation adviser, famed radical activist, Marxist, and academic Angela Davis called her former student 'one of the greatest Indigenous feminist intellectuals of our time.'
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White privilege.
Andrea Smith of the Smith tribe.
Why didn’t she use the “cheekbone” and “oral history” defense?
This is confusing. Anyone can fabricate their gender, and is immediately given multiple rewards for doing so. But you are condemned if you fabricate your ethnic background and it is one that gives you special privileges.
At an Ohio law school, a white guy was barred from campus and led off grounds by the police for opposing DEI. Seems like a disparate outcome.
Speaks with forked tongue, just like Gray Beaver.
High cheekbones do not an Indian make.
He’s lucky he got out un-indoctrinated and with his gender identity intact. Universities are not what they once were.
Lying is only a minor detail to Progressives. Actually, most of their facts are lies.
Precisely why they should have thrown the book at her. It's this "no punishment" philosophy of the Left that causes this kind of behavior, from Elizabeth Warren's bogus Native American claim to the smash-n-dash thefts in many cities. Time to grow a pair and start making these clowns pay for their actions.
For those who don't know, there were no racial quotas back in the 60's. Instead colleges acknowledged the fact that different ethnicities had different average scores on college entrance exams. So they allowed certain minorities to gain admittance with lower test scores.
This was the case with Elizabeth Warren. She couldn't score high enough on the entrance exams so she lied about being a Cherokee. She probably didn't take the place of an Indian. More likely she took the place of some white guy who, unlike her, was actually qualified to be there.
But still gets to retire and live off the taxpayer.
Ethnic Studies, not Ethics
What an idiot. She doesn’t look even a tad bit anything but white. And yes deeetie not being an enrolled member is a BFG
California’s next senator?
Was interesting.....
I can claim Native unlike Smith and Senator Pocahotnas.....I have a card and Indian rolls to prove it....
Man would have just been gone, all benefits cut.
She still has the liberal and vagina cards.
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