The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has voted unanimously to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system's campuses for making pornographic films.
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system's campuses for making pornographic films.Joe Gow, who had served as chancellor of UW-La Crosse for nearly 17 years, argued last week that he should be allowed to retain a teaching position on campus.
'Zach Greenberg, an attorney with free speech advocacy group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, called the regents' decision 'a major blow to academic freedom and free speech rights.''FIRE has said time and time again: public universities cannot sacrifice the First Amendment to protect their reputations,' Greenberg said. 'We're disappointed UW caved to donors and politicians by throwing a tenured professor under the bus.
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