Iowa Republicans blast law school over refusal to hire conservative professor

[mandym]

Iowa Republicans are taking aim at the state's top law school for denying a faculty position to a conservative law professor, who an assistant dean once said embraces politics the rest of the faculty "despises."

Teresa Wagner, who works as an associate director of writing at the University of Iowa College of Law, is suing former dean Carolyn Jones for employment discrimination, claiming she was not hired for a professor position because Jones and other law faculty disapproved of her conservative views and activism.

To hold a law faculty position at the publicly funded university is viewed as a

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[Crabtownboy]

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Now that is funny seeing as how the Conservatives and Tea Party folk are saying they want government out of our lives ... yet the Iowa conservative Republicans want the courts, governmental arms, to intervene in the lives of people at the law school.

What a hoot!

 

[InTheLight]

So she wants to create a whole new class of discrimination--political philosophy. Please, let's not go there.

"We think the hiring policies need to be such where there are certainly non-discriminatory practices which relate to political philosophy, as well as to race and gender and other issues," said Bob Anderson, chairman of the Johnson County Republican Party. He claims students are deprived of "diversity of political thought" when conservative thinkers, like Wagner, are rejected based on their politics.

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[matt wade]

I'd say she's not quite as conservative as she thinks she is.

 

[billwald]

Never heard of universities advertising for professor or even teaching assistant positions. This kind of job always goes to someone with inside connections. For that matter, most all upper level jobs go to someone with connections. Nothing else makes sense.

 

[InTheLight]

I'd say she's not quite as conservative as she thinks she is.

LOL. Good point!