"After successfully teaching 15 different finance, accounting, and law classes at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management to tens of thousands of students for 40 years without any incidents or complaints, lecturer Gordon Klein got suspended, canceled, pilloried, and banned from campus in the summer of 2020.
What was Gordon’s transgression that caused a campus uproar and motivated 20,000 students and their allies to sign a petition demanding that he be fired?
- Sexual assault or sexual harassment?
- Incompetence or bad teaching?
- Plagiarism or falsifying his credentials?
- Financial mismanagement of university funds?
Nope, none of those.
Gordon’s supposed misdeed was that he refused to change his standard race-neutral, non-discriminatory, color-blind grading policy at the request of one of his white students in June 2020 who requested racially preferential grading for black students in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis while in police custody (see Gordon’s email response here)...Read all!
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