Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pettit, Emma

Titel

The Professor and the Protester: Oliver Baker got into a scuffle with a student during a campus protest. It could cost him his career

Ist Teil von

• The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2022-04, Vol.68 (16), p.29

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Nexis Uni

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• After the rally, Baker was charged by the campus police with simple assault, disorderly conduct, and harassment, and placed on administrative leave, pending a university investigation. Courtesy: Centre County Report A video shows a scuffle between Oliver Baker, an assistant professor, and a student at a demonstration at Penn State University, in August 2021. Public universities in some red states walked a tightrope between two constituencies — those conservative lawmakers, who hold the purse strings, and many faculty and staff members who wanted more rigorous protections against a potentially fatal disease. The next day, the University Faculty Senate, which represents 23 campuses, voted no-confidence in the university’s pandemic plan for the fall of 2021, and passed a resolution in support of a vaccine mandate.