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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 inappropriate remark about Jews and the Holocaust during a 2018 meeting with faculty. The two professors, Tan...

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 trustee, pressed board members to do more about report of sexual misconduct in their ranks. Linfiel...

University president accused of antisemitism was subjected to racism, NAACP report says Miles K. Davis, Linfield University's 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 subjected to racism at the school. In addition, the school’s president, Miles K. Davis, told the Chr...

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 couldn't 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 tenured English professor. He'd taught at the university for more than a decade. And without a hea...

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 his next steps will be, and that he isn’t sure how he could persuade the administration to follow...