"Deplorable." That's what a new #AAUP report called the state of academic freedom and shared governance at #LinfieldUniversity. As I tweeted last year, the president and board had many opportunities to make common cause with a willing faculty, but chose to bully and silence them.

https://twitter.com/AnnaKeesey/status/1389312921079930881

Here's the report: insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/1…

The firing of tenured @LinfieldUniv whistle-blower Daniel @pollackpelzner would have been a catastrophic mistake by the president an board chair no matter who Daniel was, but for anybody wondering whether he's the kind of guy with an ax to grind, check out these descriptions.../1 ...by fellow @LinfieldUniv faculty, who wrote in response to President Davis's claim that @pollackpelzner was conducting a "smear campaign" against him: "This is a shocking attack on a respected member of our community whose integrity is without question".../2

As a professor @LinfieldUniv and a white Oregonian carrying the knowledge of our state’s racist past, I take the NAACP seriously. But this “report” is bogus.

https://twitter.com/opb/status/1388277989142638598

The report cites Davis’s accomplishments at @LinfieldUniv as though they prove him innocent of other problematic behavior. Pro-tip: people do both good things and bad things. #linfield #naacp