It is likely that Anya’s contract includes free speech protections that do not permit the school to terminate her for comments she makes on social media, Schneider said.īaruch Labunski, the CEO of Toronto-based marketing firm Rank Secure, told The Post that Carnegie Mellon’s carefully worded statement was crafted in a way to give the school a “back door out of the situation” by “saying that she tweeted it from her personal account.” “It’s more of a contractual impediment,” Scott Schneider, partner at the law firm of Husch Blackwell in Austin, Texas, told The Post. Nevertheless, firing her could be complicated. Her title as associate professor suggests that she does not have tenure. Uju Anya tweeted that she wished Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” death. The Post has sought comment from Carnegie Mellon.Įxperts told The Post that the university is caught between a rock and a hard place - the competing forces of “cancel culture” and the “legal ramifications” of firing or suspending a professor. “Free expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.”īut the statement did not specify whether the school plans to discipline Anya. “We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account,” CMU said in a statement posted to Twitter. The Pittsburgh, Pa., university released a statement distancing itself from the incendiary posts by Uju Anya. King Charles honors late mother Queen Elizabeth in first Christmas messageĬarnegie Mellon University has yet to indicate whether it will take any disciplinary action against a linguistics professor whose tweet wishing for Queen Elizabeth II to suffer an “excruciating” death earned her widespread condemnation, including from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Helen Mirren to honor late Queen Elizabeth at 2023 BAFTA Awards ![]() Why Sarah Ferguson will ‘always be there’ for Prince Andrew Kate found Windsor walkabout with Harry, Meghan to be the ‘hardest thing’
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