Indiana University Drops Instructor Jessica Adams After 1 MAGA Slide Drew Senator Complaint
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 17
Indiana University Drops Instructor Jessica Adams After 1 MAGA Slide Drew Senator Complaint
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 17
Summary
May 22 marked Indiana University’s decision not to reappoint lecturer Jessica Adams, ending her job this month after she was suspended from teaching in October.
A class graphic in her “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” course listed “Make America Great Again” as covert white supremacy, prompting Senator Jim Banks to contact the campus.
The university investigated Adams under Indiana’s new “intellectual diversity” law, which bars students from being subjected to unrelated political views and has drawn criticism from faculty groups.
FIRE, the free-speech group representing Adams, said the case shows universities yielding to outside political pressure and warned it could chill classroom discussion more broadly.