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Department of Ed threatens Pitt’s funding for demoting professor who said affirmative action harms students
 [CollegeFix] The University of Pittsburgh is under federal investigation for allegedly retaliating against a professor for his views and practicing "overtly race-based admission and hiring."The Department of Education informed Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher in a letter Thursday that Norman Wang may have been "disparately treated" on account of his Asian background as well. Pitt’s affiliated hospital fired Wang from his position as director of a fellowship program this summer, in response to a white paper he published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Wang (above) concluded that it would be best to implement race-neutral hiring methods within his field of cardiology. He argued that affirmative action has led to "relatively weak academic starting positions in classes" among black and Hispanic beneficiaries. The doctor and his work received subsequent backlash from various academic circles, including his University of Pittsburgh Medical Center colleagues. UPMC also asked JAHA to retract Wang’s article, which it did. (Wang retained his faculty position, however.) The Department of Education "is concerned Pitt’s many representations to students, faculty, and consumers in the market for education credentials regarding its support for academic freedom are false" based on its actions against Wang, Robert King, assistant secretary in the Office of Postsecondary Education, wrote to Gallagher. By "denouncing Dr. Wang’s empirical case for race-neutral admission and hiring," Pitt suggests that it’s practicing "systemic discrimination based on race" in violation of the Civil Rights Act, King wrote. This would mean "Pitt’s non-discrimination assurances in its Title IV program participation agreements" were false, and the department may impose "monetary penalties" as a result, he continued. The university spent $1.6 billion in Title IV funds in the past five years. That’s clearly the stick they are going to beat the entire education establishment with, like the IRS getting mobsters on undeclared income for their ill-gotten gains and the FBI RICOing the Mafia. Pitt media relations did not respond to a College Fix query seeking its point-by-point response to the allegations in the letter. UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment expert who previously frowned on Pitt’s action against Wang, did not respond to a query either.Related: University of Pittsburgh: 2020-09-15 Tiny Molecule May Prove Ultimate Weapon against Coronavirus University of Pittsburgh: 2020-07-16 Media Should Do A Mea Culpa as French Analysis Offers a Stunning Observation About Hydroxychloroquine Use University of Pittsburgh: 2020-05-05 Chinese U of Pitt coronavirus researcher - murder-suicide. Related: Department of Education: 2020-10-05 Mathematics Association Declares Math Is Racist Department of Education: 2020-09-20 Oregon Department of Education Bans Confederate Flag Department of Education: 2020-09-19 House Republicans Introduce Legislation To Bar Federal Funding Of Schools Teaching Fake History Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-11 |
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