Adams received a formal sanction from the university, which she is appealing. The university also placed monitors in all her classes.
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Jessica Adams, a lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work, resumed teaching her Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice class last week after a six-week suspension, Indiana Public Media reported.
Adams was suspended earlier this fall after a student complained about an iceberg-style graphic that she used in her class to illustrate overt, socially unacceptable forms of white supremacy like lynching and racial slurs, and covert, socially acceptable forms of white supremacy like the school-to-prison pipeline, colorblindness and housing discrimination. The student contacted U.S. Senator Jim Banks, a Republican, who in turn contacted Adams’s dean.
Adams was removed from class while administrators investigated the student’s complaint. She received a formal sanction from the university, which she is appealing. The university also placed monitors in all of her classes.
“Within that common sanction, it contained many stipulations that I will need to abide by moving forward,” Adams told the crowd at a rally hosted by the American Association of University Professors Bloomington chapter on Friday. “One of them is a very high level of monitoring.”
In an email, Indiana University spokespeople told Indiana Public Media that the university “is committed to academic freedom, following policies that uphold due process for faculty and provide a framework to best serve our students. IU cannot comment on individual personnel matters.”
