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Can actual equality be returning to universities????
"UCLA Reinstates Prof Suspended for Refusing to Change Exam or Grades for Black Students
Posted by Mike LaChance Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 1:00pm
“We’re happy to confirm that Gordon Klein is teaching once again, and hope that in the future UCLA will consider its constitutional obligations before throwing educators out of the classroom”
Back in June, we brought you the story of Professor Gordon Klein, an accounting instructor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business.
Klein was suspended, pending an investigation, for refusing to bend the rules for black studentsfollowing the death of George Floyd, despite the fact that he was following directions from the school’s diversity chair.
There were threats against Klein which were so credible that he had a police detail posted outside his home.
UCLA has now reinstated Klein, due in part to the efforts of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which got involved in his case.
From the FIRE blog:
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Can actual equality be returning to universities????
"UCLA Reinstates Prof Suspended for Refusing to Change Exam or Grades for Black Students
Posted by Mike LaChance Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 1:00pm
“We’re happy to confirm that Gordon Klein is teaching once again, and hope that in the future UCLA will consider its constitutional obligations before throwing educators out of the classroom”
Back in June, we brought you the story of Professor Gordon Klein, an accounting instructor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business.
Klein was suspended, pending an investigation, for refusing to bend the rules for black studentsfollowing the death of George Floyd, despite the fact that he was following directions from the school’s diversity chair.
There were threats against Klein which were so credible that he had a police detail posted outside his home.
UCLA has now reinstated Klein, due in part to the efforts of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which got involved in his case.
From the FIRE blog:
An interesting development in this story is that a petition was launched in defense of Klein that received over 75,000 signatures, demanding Klein’s reinstatement and an apology from the school."VICTORY: UCLA reinstates professor suspended for email on why he wouldn’t change exam, grading for black students
The University of California, Los Angeles, reinstated a professor who was put on mandatory leave for the tone of an email to a student who asked him to alter his grading policies for black students during the protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education called on UCLA in June to reinstate lecturer Gordon Klein, citing the university’s academic freedom promises, as well as its obligations under the First Amendment. Klein faced public backlash for his email, including a petition for his firing signed by more than 20,000 people.
“We’re happy to confirm that Gordon Klein is teaching once again, and hope that in the future UCLA will consider its constitutional obligations before throwing educators out of the classroom,” said Katlyn Patton, author of FIRE’s June 10 letter to UCLA. “UCLA investigated his ‘tone’ in an attempt to quell public backlash. But regardless of how many people demand his firing, UCLA cannot justify using that anger to erode Gordon’s rights.”

UCLA Reinstates Prof Suspended for Refusing to Change Exam or Grades for Black Students
“We’re happy to confirm that Gordon Klein is teaching once again, and hope that in the future UCLA will consider its constitutional obligations before throwing educators out of the classroom”
