Nearly a month ago I wrote to the president of Ohio Northern University (ONU), Dr. Melissa J. Baumann, concerning her university’s treatment of law professor Scott Gerber. I also posted the letter to the National Association of Scholars website. It has attracted a fair amount of attention, but not from President Baumann, who so far has not replied.| www.nas.org
Ohio Northern University (ONU) seems intent on chiseling into granite its protocol for getting rid of a faculty member who disagrees with the institution’s woke ideology, even when the faculty member believes in good faith that the woke ideology has led to illegal hiring and admissions practices and is indifferent to viewpoint diversity. The latest news is that the Common Pleas Court of Hardin County, Ohio, issued a temporary restraining order on July 6, preventing ONU from moving ahead wit...| www.nas.org
Editor's Note: The letter below was sent to Melissa Baumann, President of Ohio Northern University, after she and Law School Dean Charles Rose initiated an investigation of Professor Scott Gerber. The university has so far refused to explain to the Professor what deed caused his banning and forced removal from campus. This is a clear abuse of process and of the Professor's rights. Professor Gerber has detailed his experience in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.| www.nas.org
The law school deans at places such as Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Penn rarely turn to me for advice. Ok, never. That’s partly because I am not a lawyer but mostly because I am the head of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), an old organization that is known as one of the conservative voices […]| Minding The Campus