National professors' group formally censures UNL for handling of incident with conservative student

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Rick Ruggles

The Turning Point USA debacle just won't leave the University of Nebraska-Lincoln alone.

A national professors' organization voted Saturday in Washington, D.C., to formally censure, or rebuke, UNL administrators for the way they handled discipline in a conflict between a liberal graduate student-lecturer and a conservative undergraduate.

UNL now will go on the American Association of University Professors' censure list of about 55 colleges and universities. Most are small schools, but the list also includes the University of Missouri. Mizzou was censured for its treatment of the dismissal of a faculty member who asked for "muscle" to remove a journalist from a 2015 protest.

AAUP censures typically involve findings that schools failed to respect faculty members' right to academic freedom, tenure or due process when disciplined.

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