UCLA Conservative Professor May Be Fired From Job For Refusing to Cave In to Political Correctness – Heat Street

TheUniversity of California Los Angeles (UCLA) administration is allegedly trying to sack an outspoken conservative professor for his resistance to political correctness.

Keith Fink, a UCLA professor who teaches classes on entertainment law and free speech, fears the university could an upcoming professional review to helppush him out of the institution.

Fink has previouslycaused waves on campus by refusing to embrace trigger warnings and safe spaces, prompting the universityto block some students from taking his classes.

University policy dictates that every lecturer must undergo a periodic Excellence Review to judge their performance.

If a panel of senior faculty members decide the professor doesnt meet the excellence standards, they are forced to leave the position.

Fink told The Daily Wirethat such reviews are normally just a formality, but the university administration is throwing obstacles in his path.

According to the emails acquiredby the Wire,the officials have reprimanded Fink for incorrect admin in soliciting statements from students to support his teaching a charge Fink denies.

He also claims the department ignoring his nominees for students to contact and using a different list, purposefully skipping one which praised him particularly strongly. Only when he noticed that the document was missing, the department fixed the allegedly accidental mistake.

The student who wrote the letter toldthe site:No reasonable person would believe that my letter was accidentally omitted from the dossier, because presumably it flatly contradicts the departments narrative, the student said.

They asked me what my honest opinion was, and I spent hours articulating how Professor Fink is an excellent instructor and explaining the impact he has had on my life.It infuriates me to hear they attempted to (by accident or by malice) discard my opinion simply because it contradicts their mission.

TheUCLA administration also solicited a number of negative letters from students, which the professor believes are exaggerated.

One allegedly accuses him of using racial slurs without the context that he was teaching a class on the First Amendment and whether they were protected.

Fink told the Wire:The way the system is, this is the easiest way for them to get rid of me. This is the perfect storm.

Heat Street has contacted UCLA for a comment, but has yet to receive a response.

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UCLA Conservative Professor May Be Fired From Job For Refusing to Cave In to Political Correctness - Heat Street