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Essex County College
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Essex County College — Stand Up For Speech Lawsuit
January 4, 2018
FIRE sues college for ignoring records requests about its firing of Black Lives Matter advocate
Professor fired for defending Black Lives Matter on Fox News files lawsuit
April 10, 2018
Lisa Durden, the former adjunct professor at New Jersey’s Essex County College who was fired following a testy ppearance on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, filed a lawsuit against the school yesterday in New Jersey state court. Durden’s lawsuit follows FIRE’s own lawsuit against the college, which revealed that there were no records to evidence the college’s… Read more
Lisa Durden: All about her famous Fox News interview and its fallout (VIDEO)
February 8, 2018
If you saw the testy exchange between professor and media commentator Lisa Durden and Fox News host Tucker Carlson back in June, you surely haven’t forgotten it. New Jersey’s Essex County College fired Durden from her adjunct professorship last summer after the heated segment in which Durden (in)famously “Boo-hoo-hoo[ed]” Carlson when he complained about white… Read more
Essex County College tells The Intercept its termination of Lisa Durden is being mischaracterized
January 26, 2018
Last summer, Essex County College terminated one of its adjunct faculty members, Lisa Durden, after she appeared on Fox News to debate Tucker Carlson about a Black Lives Matter event. Essex’s president claimed that the college had been “immediately inundated with feedback from students, faculty and prospective students and their families expressing frustration, concern and… Read more
After FIRE lawsuit, Essex County College finally turns over documents about firing of Black Lives Matter advocate
January 23, 2018
Essex County College — after six months of stonewalling that ended only after FIRE filed a lawsuit against the college — has finally produced records concerning its termination of an adjunct professor who debated a Black Lives Matter event on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program. Those records contradict the claim by Essex’s president, Anthony Munroe,… Read more
FIRE sues college for ignoring records requests about its firing of Black Lives Matter advocate
January 4, 2018
Saying it was “inundated” with complaints, New Jersey’s Essex County College terminated an adjunct professor after she defended a Black Lives Matter event in a segment on Fox News. After 174 days and five extensions of its deadline, Essex has failed to produce a single record in response to FIRE’s public records request for information… Read more
Essex County College wrongly fires professor over controversial TV spot
July 11, 2017
A recent nationwide outbreak of faculty censorship has left adjunct faculty members — who lack the formal protections of tenure — particularly vulnerable when publicly expressing their views on contemporary political issues. In a particularly notable instance, Newark, New Jersey’s Essex County College has been embroiled since early June in a controversy over its treatment… Read more
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