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In 2014, Steven Salaita’s venomous tweets about Israel cost him his tenured faculty appointment at the University of Illinois. Five years later, he is working as a school bus driver in suburban ...
Steven G. Salaita was promised, then denied, a tenured position in the program in American Indian studies at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. Since then, the program has dwindled, its faculty pulled away ...
In the summer of 2014, professor Steven Salaita became the center of a national controversy when his job offer at the University of Illinois was rescinded as a result of his vicious tweets about ...
As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, " Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom," on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday ...
Steven Salaita was a rising star in the field of American Indian studies. In the fall of 2012, he applied for a job at the University of Illinois. Then, he lost everything.
No one following the Steven Salaita case was surprised Thursday when the displaced scholar announced he’s suing top administrators of the University of Illinois System and its Urbana-Champaign campus.
Steven Salaita, a former professor whose revoked job offer in 2014 stirred national controversy, says he now drives a school bus. Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images ...
The University of Illinois should bite the bullet and offer a job to controversial scholar Steven Salaita, who was denied an appointment by the Urbana-Champaign campus last year due to his vile ...
Writing in Tablet, Liel Leibovitz concludes that it "should not qualify as scholarship." But at least Salaita is absolutely, definitely, unequivocally not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism.
Professor Salaita might have a good constitutional claim, or under some other regime of law. And I agree with Steven Lubet that a settlement is the modal outcome.
Controversial professor Steven Salaita, whose job offer at the University of Illinois was withdrawn last year after he made anti-Israel comments on social media, has filed a lawsuit in federal cour… ...