Major Sanction Against Tenured Professor Amy Wax By Paul Caron
The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn Law Dean Requests Faculty Senate Impose Major Sanction Against Amy Wax:
Penn Law School Dean Ted Ruger requested that the Faculty Senate impose a major sanction against tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax, an action that brings the University closer to potentially terminating the controversial academic.
In a 12-page report sent on June 23 to Faculty Senate Chair Vivian Gadsden, Ruger argued that Wax s bigoted public statements and her behavior on campus and inside the classroom have violated multiple University standards for faculty, citing numerous student and faculty accounts of the conduct that he believes warrants disciplinary action. Ruger requested that the Faculty Senate convene a hearing board to conduct a full review of Wax s conduct and ultimately impose a major sanction, in line with the University’s policy for punishing tenured faculty members.
Academic freedom for a tenured scholar is, and always has been, premised on a faculty member remaining fit to perform the minimal requirements of the job, Ruger wrote in the letter. However, Wax s conduct demonstrates a flagrant disregard of the standards, rules, or mission of the University.’
Back in my day at The Yale Law School, word would go around that Professor X or Y actually thought x or y about something. If you couldn’t stand that, you didn’t have to take a class from them. That was about it. Why couldn’t this be the policy of Penn w/r/t Professor Wax?