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Jan 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Hmm ... @babson told the @nytimes that Phansey was a staff member, not a professor. nyti.ms/2RQxe5M

Here's a screengrab of Babson's course catalogue for this semester from before he was fired:

thefire.org/babson-college…
@babson @nytimes Babson itself described Phansey as a faculty member — until it began scrubbing its website to delete mentions of his name. Unfortunately for them, Google’s cache kept copies of the pages it was deleting.
@babson @nytimes For example, here’s an April 19 profile on @Babson’s site, now memory-holed:

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@babson @nytimes To recap, Babson College has, so far, issued misleading public statements implying that there was an active law enforcement investigation and falsely claimed a faculty member was not a faculty member — all while refusing to stick by its public commitment to freedom of expression.

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