Penn Law Prof Reassigned Over Race Comments Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger said professor Amy Wax violated the school's confidentiality policy around grades and that black law students assigned to her required first-year courses would face undue pressures. By Karen Sloan | UPDATEDMar 14, 2018 at 02:43 PM Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. Amy Wax.
University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax will no longer teach required first-year courses after a video recorded last year recently resurfaced in which she claimed black law students at Penn underperform academically.
Law Dean Ted Ruger informed law students in an email Tuesday evening that he had decided that Wax will teach only elective courses next year. (She has previously taught civil procedure in addition to upper-level courses.) Ruger said the move was not an attack on Wax’s academic freedom, but a bid to ensure black law students don’t face undue pressures should they be assigned to a required course she teaches.
Reached Wednesday, Wax declined to comment on Ruger’s decision.
Law students began lobbying for Wax’s removal from required courses last fall, after she co-authored an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer that many found to be racist. The piece argued that a breakdown of cultural norms from the 1950 and 1960s has weakened the Unites States, and it singled out the “rap culture of inner-city blacks” and the growing “anti-assimilation ideas” among Hispanic immigrants as examples of negative trends.
But the law school took no formal action until this week, after a
video interview
Wax recorded last September with Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury circulated widely.
While explaining what she views as the “downside of affirmative action,” Wax claimed that black Penn law students nearly always land low in the class rank.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely rarely in the top half,” she said. “I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half in my required first-year course. What are we supposed to do about that? You’re putting in front of this person a real uphill battle.”
Wax also claimed that Penn’s law review has a racial diversity mandate, which Ruger refuted along with Wax’s claim that black students struggle academically at the law school.
“And contrary to any suggestion otherwise, black students at Penn Law are extremely successful, both inside and outside the classroom, in the job market, and in their careers,” Ruger wrote in his email to students.
Ruger said Wax’s comments to Loury ran afoul of a confidentiality policy surrounding grades. Additionally, he said black law students assigned to her required classes may believe that their professor has preconceived notions of how they will perform, thus facing added pressure to succeed.
“They may legitimately question whether the inaccurate and belittling statements she has made may adversely affect their learning environment and career prospects,” Ruger wrote. “These students may also reasonably feel an additional and unwarranted burden to perform well, so that their performance not be used or misused by their professor in public discourse about racial inequality in academic success.”
Ruger said that he was exercising his authority as dean to allocate courses, and that Wax has not faced any official sanction for her comments. She remains free to express her views, he said.
But Loury, the Brown University professor who made the controversial video with Wax, called Wax’s course reassignment “Orwellian” in an email to Wax, which he forwarded when asked for comment on the situation Wednesday. Ruger is using the school’s grade confidentiality policy as an excuse to not provide any facts to refute Wax’s assertions about the academic performance of black students, wrote Loury, who is black.
“Moreover, you are said to be abusing your privileges as professor and to be using black students as guinea pigs for your research simply by commenting on their relatively poor academic performance—which is clearly a tendentious stretch by your dean intended to discredit you and to justify his reprehensible actions,” he added.
But a student petition calling on Ruger to take action and publicly refute Wax’s claims argues that she should be removed from the school’s clerkship committee in addition to a permanent removal from teaching first-year courses.
“Professor Wax’s public statements are false, denigrating, and completely incongruous with Penn Law’s culture and values,” it reads. “In order to separate itself from such harmful, hurtful lies, Penn Law must respond publicly.”
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Karen Sloan is the Legal Education Editor and Senior Writer at ALM. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ
University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax will no longer teach required first-year courses after a video recorded last year recently resurfaced in which she claimed black law students at Penn underperform academically.
Law Dean Ted Ruger informed law students in an email Tuesday evening that he had decided that Wax will teach only elective courses next year. (She has previously taught civil procedure in addition to upper-level courses.) Ruger said the move was not an attack on Wax’s academic freedom, but a bid to ensure black law students don’t face undue pressures should they be assigned to a required course she teaches.
Reached Wednesday, Wax declined to comment on Ruger’s decision.
Law students began lobbying for Wax’s removal from required courses last fall, after she co-authored an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer that many found to be racist. The piece argued that a breakdown of cultural norms from the 1950 and 1960s has weakened the Unites States, and it singled out the “rap culture of inner-city blacks” and the growing “anti-assimilation ideas” among Hispanic immigrants as examples of negative trends.
But the law school took no formal action until this week, after a
While explaining what she views as the “downside of affirmative action,” Wax claimed that black Penn law students nearly always land low in the class rank.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely rarely in the top half,” she said. “I can think of one or two students who scored in the top half in my required first-year course. What are we supposed to do about that? You’re putting in front of this person a real uphill battle.”
Wax also claimed that Penn’s law review has a racial diversity mandate, which Ruger refuted along with Wax’s claim that black students struggle academically at the law school.
“And contrary to any suggestion otherwise, black students at Penn Law are extremely successful, both inside and outside the classroom, in the job market, and in their careers,” Ruger wrote in his email to students.
Ruger said Wax’s comments to Loury ran afoul of a confidentiality policy surrounding grades. Additionally, he said black law students assigned to her required classes may believe that their professor has preconceived notions of how they will perform, thus facing added pressure to succeed.
“They may legitimately question whether the inaccurate and belittling statements she has made may adversely affect their learning environment and career prospects,” Ruger wrote. “These students may also reasonably feel an additional and unwarranted burden to perform well, so that their performance not be used or misused by their professor in public discourse about racial inequality in academic success.”
Ruger said that he was exercising his authority as dean to allocate courses, and that Wax has not faced any official sanction for her comments. She remains free to express her views, he said.
But Loury, the Brown University professor who made the controversial video with Wax, called Wax’s course reassignment “Orwellian” in an email to Wax, which he forwarded when asked for comment on the situation Wednesday. Ruger is using the school’s grade confidentiality policy as an excuse to not provide any facts to refute Wax’s assertions about the academic performance of black students, wrote Loury, who is black.
“Moreover, you are said to be abusing your privileges as professor and to be using black students as guinea pigs for your research simply by commenting on their relatively poor academic performance—which is clearly a tendentious stretch by your dean intended to discredit you and to justify his reprehensible actions,” he added.
But a student petition calling on Ruger to take action and publicly refute Wax’s claims argues that she should be removed from the school’s clerkship committee in addition to a permanent removal from teaching first-year courses.
“Professor Wax’s public statements are false, denigrating, and completely incongruous with Penn Law’s culture and values,” it reads. “In order to separate itself from such harmful, hurtful lies, Penn Law must respond publicly.”
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怎么融洽同子女的关系?
·不要监控孩子的电话，尊重其隐私权。
·对孩子的朋友要和蔼可亲，但不要同他们过于亲近。不要侵入他（她）的天地。
·不要在他人面前夸奖孩子，这样会使其尴尬。
·不要在他人面前批评或斥责孩子。如果必须要这样做的话，应该在无人的时候。
·母亲在他人面前要注意服饰。母亲的形象不整洁，孩子会感到羞耻。
·如果你的孩子参加学校的演出，他（她）在舞台上时你不要打手势，这样会令他（她）紧张，甚至出错。
·孩子和你一起坐自己家的车出门时，不要把汽车收音机调到你所喜爱的频道。让孩子挑选电台，但可要求他调低音量。
·在子女需要帮助时要给予帮助，但要注意方法。
·子女在一定的阶段就像需要食品一样需要爱抚，但是爱抚要适可而止，不要在公开场合这样做，更不要在朋友面前这样做。
·不要让你的孩子在外人面前表现他的“本事”，如朗诵、唱歌、跳舞或弹钢琴。如果你为他的本领自豪并希望让人家看到，那就对他提出请求。如果父母坚持让他们在外人面前表现本领，有的孩子会感觉自己像马戏团的猴子。
·不要向他的朋友和亲属讲他的怪癖，尤其不要当他的面前。任何孩子都不愿意别人知道自己的隐私。
·不要让他失去对你的信赖。他向你透露的秘密，你不要告诉别人。你一定要完全尊重他的意愿。
·在他面前不要说谎。他看到自己的父母说谎或弄虚作假，就会感觉不好。例如，父母在某人背后说坏话，而当面又装出热情的样子，孩子就会反感。
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文革时一句著名的黑话＂大学的牌子，中学的内容，小学的水平＂－－－最可笑的是最后一句：
幼儿园的脾气－－－－学生是工农兵，老师是臭老九，管不起。学习不咋样不能说还得哄。
历史常有惊人的相似之处。。。
说黑人学生成绩不好，是罔顾事实。那么事实究竟是怎样呢？因为隐私权，又不能公布事实。
就是爱怎么说怎么说了。
要什么学术水平？
事实被分数隐私权掩盖着……
学生抗议的不是说黑人学生成绩不好不是事实吗？教授被隐私权捆绑着，又没法证实她自己说的是事实。
就像華人如果聽到說小眼睛什麼的也感覺不好 要人道歉啊
没有因为一个不好就说普遍不好啊。你看了文章吗？