Feds warn UCLA about disciplining professor who read N-word from MLK letter | The College Fix

Feds warn UCLA about disciplining professor who read N-word from MLK letter | The College Fix
"The US Department of Education has warned UCLA it could face fines if it disciplines a political science professor who read the N-word from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

Lecturer W. Ajax Peris, an Air Force veteran, has been under investigation since early this month. 

UCLA Political Science Chair Michael Chwe and two others in his department had blasted Peris in an email, agreeing with students’ complaints that he didn’t “pause and reassess [his] teaching pedagogy” after objections to the N-word.

An apology from Peris did little to assuage students and faculty. 

According to Fox News, Chwe and company alleged Peris’s act of contrition “escalated the situation rather than engaging in […] thoughtful and open discourse.”...

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