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Longtime Linfield donor resigns from board, ‘appalled’ by firing of professor who held endowed chair in her name Updated 10:53 PM; Today 10:13 PM “Suppressing voices of dissent only causes further damage,” Ronni Lacroute wrote to the board. “I also cannot accept the administration’s claims that there are no problems anymore related to sexual misconduct or student safety on campus.”LC- Facebook Share Longtime Linfield University trustee Ronni Lacroute, who endowed a Shakespeare ...

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner The case of Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a noted Shakespearean scholar and, until recently, the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Linfield University, has quickly drawn attention to how a university administration and its Board of Trustees can feel entitled to bypass due process and substitute for it corporate protocols that even as such seem ethically problematic. Pollack-Pelzner, who has been a sharp critic of Linfield’s responses to sexual harassment and who ...

The Petty Tyrants of Linfield University Linfield University, a liberal arts college in Oregon, claims repeatedly in its faculty handbook to honor academic freedom. It could hardly be clearer. “Academic freedom and freedom of inquiry are values to which Linfield University subscribes.” But Linfield’s despotic administration has effectively renounced this statement in favor of a pithier one: “Snitches get stitches.” The snitcher–or whistleblower–in this case is Daniel Pollack-Pelzn...

Miles K. Davis, Linfield University’s president, denies saying anything antisemitic. (JTA) — In the latest developments in an ongoing controversy at Linfield University over the firing of a tenured Jewish professor who accused the school of antisemitism, a report from the local branch of the NAACP found that the Oregon school’s president was subjected to racism at the school. In addition, the school’s president, Miles K. Davis, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he had in fact ...

Jones I shared in this post some of my first thoughts about the Supreme Courts new Eighth Amendment juvenile LWOP decision in Jones v. Mississippi, No. 18-1259 (S. Ct. April 22, 2021) (available here), and then I rounded up a few days later in this post some notable initial critical commentary.  Just over a week later, I have seen a number of additional notable takes on the ruling, and here is another abridged round up: 

Linfield University President Miles K. Davis. Last Tuesday, Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, fired Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor of English and a Shakespeare scholar who had accused President Miles K. Davis of anti-Semitism. According to The Oregonian ( Linfield University President Miles K. Davis made anti-Semitic comments, professor says; Davis alleges ‘smear campaign’), President Davis faces allegations by two psychology professors that he made an inappropr...

More Support for Terminated Linfield Professor By   Hundreds of professors from scores of institutions have already signed a petition in support of Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, whom Linfield University fired this week. Pollack-Pelzner, formerly a chaired professor in Shakespeare studies at Linfield, recently went public with allegations of anti-Semitism involving members of the Board of Trustees. Pollack-Pelzner, who is Jewish, said the hostile environment intensified after he, as the sole faculty...

University president accused of antisemitism was subjected to racism, NAACP report says Miles K. Davis, Linfield Universitys president, denies saying anything antisemitic. (Courtesy of Linfield University) Advertisement (JTA) — In the latest developments in an ongoing controversy at Linfield University over the firing of a tenured Jewish professor who accused the school of antisemitism, a report from the local branch of the NAACP found that the Oregon school’s president was sub...

A tenured professor was fired with a hearing. Why? Illustration by The Chronicle; photos from Daniel Pollack-Pelzner and Timothy D. Sofranko This week Daniel Pollack-Pelzner found out he was fired from Linfield University when his MacBook froze and a message said he was locked out. He couldnt get into his university email, and an auto-reply from his personal account to his Linfield address said, “Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is no longer an employee of Linfield University.” Pollack-Pelzner was a...

On Thursday, Pollack-Pelzner told JTA that he learned he was fired only when he discovered he was locked out of his work email. When he sent an email to the account from his personal email, he received an automatic response saying he no longer worked at the school. Linfield’s faculty handbook requires a lengthy process, including two formal hearings, before a professor with tenure can be fired — procedures that have not been followed in this case. Pollack-Pelzner said he doesn’t know what...