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-Land of the Free
Princeton University Fires Professor Joshua Katz
2022-05-24
[LI] A Princeton classics professor was fired, "effective immediately," on Monday after the university’s administration found that he had not been fully honest and cooperative with an investigation into his sexual relationship with an undergraduate student about 15 years ago.

The dismissal of the professor, Joshua Katz, was a rare case of a tenured professor being dismissed, and came after a fierce debate on campus and in wider political spheres over whether Dr. Katz was being targeted for an article in an online journal that criticized anti-racist proposals by faculty, students and staff.

The board voted to dismiss him based on a "detailed written complaint from an alumna who had a consensual relationship with Dr. Katz while she was an undergraduate under his academic supervision," according to a statement from the university issued Monday afternoon. That relationship was in 2006-07, but the alumna did not file her complaint until 2021.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  ..they'll keep appealing, just like anyone on death row, but when the plaintiffs start putting legal leans and claims against Oberlin's assets its over.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-24 16:09  

#7  ^ I think it's over at Oberlin
Posted by: Frank G   2022-05-24 15:53  

#6  And Oberlin is still being appealed; takes very deep pockets and high risk tolerance to sue these guys:
Posted by: Glenmore    2022-05-24 15:41  

#5  Attention all tort lawyers: Princeton has a very, very large endowment. It puts Oberlin to shame!
Posted by: Tom   2022-05-24 11:23  

#4  The Trustees need to be put up against a wall.

Oh, they will be figuratively in court.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-24 08:41  

#3  Princeton fires tenured professor over his relationship with a student - but he claims he's being punished for speaking out on university's woke plans to give black staff higher salaries and more sabbatical time
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-05-24 07:29  

#2  The Trustees need to be put up against a wall.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030   2022-05-24 07:10  

#1  Show me the man,” Stalin’s enforcer, Lavrentiy Beria, liked to say, “and I’ll show you the crime.”

Beria would have done well at Princeton.

Or anywhere else in modern-day U.S. politics or academia.


Posted by: Besoeker   2022-05-24 06:02  

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