Posted on 01/17/2021 6:52:37 AM PST by Zhang Fei
A Florida college is seeking to fire a professor whose controversial tweets — including one claiming “black privilege is real” – led to widespread calls for his termination as protests raged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.
An investigation by the University of Central Florida determined that associate psychology professor Charles Negy created a “hostile” classroom environment and tried to deter students from filing complaints, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The probe also found that Negy didn’t report a student’s claim that she was sexually assaulted by one of his teaching assistants and gave false information during the investigation, which began last summer as students and alumni called for his removal from campus.
More than 500 messages about Negy were received by the college, including some that alleged he subjected students to “discriminatory harassment” in class. University officials notified him Wednesday they plan to terminate him on Jan. 25, although UCF says his controversial tweets had no role in the decision, the newspaper reported.
“None of the findings in the investigation are a result of Dr. Negy’s comments on Twitter, which are protected as free expression, or comments in the classroom that were the subject of some students’ complaints but that the university determined were protected by academic freedom,” a university spokesman wrote the newspaper in an email.
Negy, who has been on paid administrative leave since January, is not teaching this semester. He has until Jan. 25 to submit a written response to the “serious” allegations, according to a letter sent to him by an interim dean.
One student told UCF investigators she reported to Negy in February 2014 that one of his teaching assistants sexually assaulted her at her apartment. But the professor said she wouldn’t have a case unless she “fabricated information to the police, which he
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First the punishment, then the trial. Wrongful termination suit in the offing i should think.
If history is an indicator, apeshit time is on the horizon.
Men of will exist, in their minds, waiting.
Hard times make good men
Good men make good times
Good times make weak men
Weak men make hard times <—— You are here!
I agree to an extent.
Impulse control is both our strength and weakness.
The binary switch flips eventually.
Associate Professors typically have tenure, so can’t be fired for offensive speech. That is why they’ve concocted the charge that he created a hostile environment.
You guys might find it a little difficult to believe, but when I went to UCF in 1973 we actually had a sociology Department that encouraged free thinking. I’m not saying that all my professors were conservative, not by any stretch. But they were open-minded and encouraged debate and free-thinking. It was fairly small school at the time, maybe seven or eight thousand students? It also did not have a football team, which I liked.
Several of my professors who would have been considered relatively liberal at the time would be run off campus now for some of the things that they said then. I have to believe that they would be appalled at the state of the University now.
Bkmk
It’s true. You can say hateful things about white people and get away with it.
A friend of mine, who taught a class at UCF, said once “that seeing his Senior class students’ lack of writing skills, he would not accept a degree from UCF at face value if he was interviewing a prospective employee.”
Your eyes lie. Truth is that which advances rat interests.
Speaking or writing an untruth is a crime. The rat’s SA, their BLM and Antifa thugs punish the guilty.
Yield. Grovel. Seig.
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