SAN DIEGO — San Diego State University is being both excoriated and supported for its decision last week to reassign a teacher who made racial slurs during lectures to illustrate a point about language.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based civil rights group, told SDSU in an email Tuesday that the action it took against philosophy professor J. Angelo Corlett violated his First Amendment rights to free speech.
FIRE asked the university to immediately reinstate Corlett and indicated that it might take legal action if SDSU declined to do so.
