U North Texas Prof Accused of Racism Wins $725,000 Settlement
“will receive $400,000 in the settlement and his legal team will receive $325,000”
That’s a nice payday. It’s a shame he had to go through this to get it.
The College Fix reports:
Professor accused of racism wins $725,000 settlement from University of North Texas
The University of North Texas will pay $725,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit from Professor Timothy Jackson, following its “formal investigation” and sanctions against him.
The university will also “resume publication” of the journal and reduce Jackson’s teaching load by one-course and “appoint a half-time Research Assistant to support the journal,” according to free speech expert Eugene Volokh. He wrote about the settlement at the Volokh Conspiracy, a free speech blog published by Reason.
Volokh said Jackson (pictured) will receive $400,000 in the settlement and his legal team will receive $325,000.
The settlement, finalized on July 2, ends a five-year battle that began when Jackson organized a symposium to respond to criticism of 19th century German music theorist Heinrich Schenker. Jackson is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, which is housed at UNT.
The July 2020 symposium included Jackson’s own rebuttal of Hunter College Professor Philip Ewell, who had accused Schenker of being a racist. (Subsequent to that claim, Ewell has also suggested his own father was racist for liking Beethoven).
As previously reported by The College Fix:
The black professor argued that Schenker was “an ardent racist and German nationalist” whose ideas exist “to benefit members of the dominant white race of music theory.”
Volume 12 of the UNT-produced journal presented a collection of critical responses to Ewell’s paper to convey a “variety of thoughts and perspectives.” Jackson’s own critique called Ewell’s work an attempt to construct a “conspiracy theory” around Schenker, who was Jewish, that is “part and parcel of the much broader current of Black anti-semitism.”
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Comments
Will North Texas fire any of its administrators who were involved in punishing Prof. Jackson?
They’re not admitting that they did anything wrong.
And he’s required to hand off editing the journal over the next five years.
all I know is that racism does exist but its the handling of that racism that causes the unfairness/lawsuits etc
One constant in whackademia: the status migrainosus of disagreements between ivory-tower types over sublimely arcane and otherwise petty topics. It is not limited to any field of inquiry, and it’s strange how it leads to conflagrations that can destroy institutions from within over issues that get lost in the noise.