Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants
“Manco alleges the university and the surviving defendants engaged in defamation, retaliation, and false light, a charge similar to defamation.”
We have been following this case from the very beginning. See the full backstory here.
Broad Liberty has the update:
Former SJU prof. Manco settles lawsuit with some defendants, but not all
Greg Manco, the former St. Joseph’s University math professor who alleges he was chased out of his job because of a tweet about racial reparations, has settled his lawsuit with four alumna defendants, but the charges still stand against the university and key defendants who Manco says orchestrated a campaign to have him unseated.
The move is one of the more consequential developments for a lawsuit now entering its 50th month over alleged “cancel culture” behavior by the university in the pandemic era in that it’s one of the few changes that seems to indicate an end to the contest is still visible.
In early 2021, as the nation was still embroiled in the racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Manco tweeted his stance on reparations from an account that didn’t directly bear his name.
“Suppose your great-great-grandfather murdered someone,” he tweeted on Feb. 17. “The victim’s great-great-grandson knocks on your door, shows you the newspaper clipping from 1905, and demands compensation from you. Your response?”
“Now get this racist reparation bulls*** out of your head for good,” he concluded. The tweet linked to an Associated Press story reporting that the Biden administration was “giving its support to studying reparations for Black Americans for slavery and discrimination.”
Not long after, the post became a flashpoint on social media and people began calling for Manco’s resignation or firing. A Change.org petition said, “Blatant and pubic [sic] disrespect for people experiencing poverty, racism, sexism, and so much more is unacceptable. This man needs to be removed from his position as an educator.”
SJU pulled Manco from the classroom for the remainder of the spring semester and he was also relieved of his coaching duties with the university baseball team. Later, his contract as a visiting professor was not renewed. Although SJU hired him as an adjunct professor, the change caused him to lose some pay and benefits.
When he sued in 2022, the university fired him, claiming he violated a student’s privacy. His complaint revealed that a student — the one Manco believes was the driver to get him fired — had failed his class a few years before.
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Why wouldn’t anyone want to be a college professor these days? Breath too loudly and some student will claim that you were commiting a microagression and have you fired.
Visiting professorships are commonly not renewed for any reason or no reason.
Usually the contract itself explicitly says that the contract will not be renewed automatically.
My adjunct contracts *always* contain this language without exception.
This guy should be thanking his god or lucky stars that he has a gig with SJU.
Talk about ingrates.
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