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One professor fired, another criticized for comments related to race

Inside Higher Ed: As tensions over race in higher education continue to surface on campus after campus, two faculty members have been criticized over comments they made questioning -- in ways many found offensive -- movements to draw attention to injustice against black people. One lost her job and the other is planning a leave.

At Concordia University, in Ann Arbor, Mich., an adjunct teaching social psychology was fired after she answered a question in class about her views on Colin Kaepernick, the National Football League quarterback who started the protest movement in which football players and others are kneeling during the national anthem to draw attention to police violence against black people. The adjunct, Susan Quade, said that she would kill him.

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