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"Iowa Republicans are taking aim at the state's top law school for denying a faculty position to a conservative law professor, who an assistant dean once said embraces politics the rest of the faculty "despises."
"Teresa Wagner, who works as an associate director of writing at the University of Iowa College of Law, is suing former dean Carolyn Jones for employment discrimination, claiming she was not hired for a professor position because Jones and other law faculty disapproved of her conservative views and activism."
"To hold a law faculty position at the publicly funded university is viewed as a"sacred cow," Wagner said in an interview, and "Republicans need not apply."
Not a huge fan of lawsuits, but this one seems like a battle worth fighting. Everyone knows our Universities have been taken over by the Left and Conservatives are the new minority and the only one not being protected. Time to take 'em on and win back a balanced educational system.
Who got hired in the position instead? How did the two of them interview? Was it a really hard decision? Or was the one who got hired clearly the better candidate during the interview?
Who got hired in the position instead? How did the two of them interview? Was it a really hard decision? Or was the one who got hired clearly the better candidate during the interview?
Guess we'll find out as the court case goes forward. But for those of you who may doubt the BIAS against Conservatives in our public universities, take a look at this from an expert on BIAS:
"SAN ANTONIO — Some of the world’s pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting."
Sure sounds like she has a point, it seems the faculty didn't want an "icky" conservative in their midst and made up the excuse about her being weak in analysis.
Conservatives aren't a protected class. It is, in fact, legal to discriminate against them. Just like it is legal to discriminate against gays. Maybe both problems should be fixed?
Conservatives aren't a protected class. It is, in fact, legal to discriminate against them.
Not according to the Supreme Court.
‘[P]olitical belief and association constitute the core of those activities protected by the First Amendment.’” Rutan v. Republican Party of Ill., 497 U.S. 62, 69 (1990) (quoting Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347, 356 (1976)). In Rutan, the United States Supreme Court extended Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980) and Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976) and held that the First Amendment prohibits a state from basing hiring decisions on political beliefs or associations with limited exceptions for policymaking and confidential positions.
But wait, there's more...
Academic freedom is a “special concern of the First Amendment.” Keyishian v. Bd. of Regents of Univ. of N.Y., 385 U.S. 589, 603 (1967). “No more direct assault on academic freedom can be imagined than for the school authorities to [refuse to hire] a teacher because of his or her philosophical, political, or ideological beliefs.” Bd. of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 169, 187-88 (1972) (Douglas, J., dissenting).
And if it was the other way around, conservatives would be appluading the decision.
Well, yeah.
Wasn't that long ago they were condemning Derrick Bell, and by extension the president, for fighting for more inclusiveness at Harvard back in the day.
But of course that was different.
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