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Profs’ group will censure university for Salaita treatment, department heads say

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign department heads wrote an open letter to senior leaders of the school Wednesday, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

They claim that the retiring president of the system, chancellor and board of trustees made “expansive and troubling” statements in justifying a revoked job offer to Steven Salaita, the professor whose virulent anti-Semitic tweets seemed to celebrate the murder of Jews.

Salaita went to court to get records of emails by university leaders that might be relevant to his yanked offer.

The letter from department heads predicts that the American Association of University Professors will eventually censure the school for its actions around Salaita, “and says it already has thrown a wrench into the campus’s searches for new faculty members and prompted scholars elsewhere to cancel more than three dozen scheduled talks there,” the Chronicle said.

Read the Chronicle story.

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