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A civil rights lawsuit filed by a University of Washington computer science professor has called attention to a largely academic debate over land acknowledgments — formal statements that recognize Indigenous custodianship of geographic areas on which institutions stand or events take place....
The issue started when the UW’s diversity committee began requiring an “Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Statement” to be included in course materials.
A U. of Washington professor is suing the school after being punished for not including a Native American "land acknowledgement."
A professor has sued the University of Washington in federal court over a dispute over a land acknowledgment. The professor, Stuart Reges, of the computer science department, in an act of protest, broke from the boilerplate land acknowledgment text that UW encourages—but does not require—professors to use as a suggested best practice.
A professor is suing the University of Washington (UW) after administrators punished him for refusing to echo the school's woke leftist claim that the campus sits on "occupied land" that once belonged to indians, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE). According to professor Stuart Reges, "Land acknowledgments are performative acts of conformity that should be resisted, even if it lands you in court."