Daily News | High-profile Temple professor is placed on paid administrative leave while university conducts review
A source close to the university, while acknowledging Goldrick-Rab is a fierce advocate for students, called her “very aggressive” and said she fails to follow university rules, accuses people of wrongdoing and attacks them. The best case would be for Goldrick-Rab to take her center and leave Temple, the source said.on Inside Higher Ed’s website in support of Goldrick-Rab, said the complaints were one-sided, unfair, and not really newsworthy.
“There is documentation we put together to show that relationship,” he said. “We’ve been audited. I feel very comfortable that that particular allegation is going to lead to nowhere.”Born in Fairfax, Va., Goldrick-Rab, 45, a professor of sociology and medicine, got her bachelor’s degree in sociology from George Washington University and her master’s and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.
“Ms. Goldrick-Rab has made a career of courting controversy by speaking bluntly about her pet issues,” Her Twitter profile, which has more than 49,000 followers, includes a quote from scholar Angela Davis: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change; I am changing the things I cannot accept.”“To be able to be free to be critical of higher education while working in higher education, it requires protection,” she said at the time.
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