{"id":1486047,"date":"2022-05-20T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486047"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T18:45:26","slug":"ucf-professor-fired-after-tweets-questioning-black-lives-matter-narrative-must-be-reinstated-receive-back-pay-arbitrator-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucf-professor-fired-after-tweets-questioning-black-lives-matter-narrative-must-be-reinstated-receive-back-pay-arbitrator-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Professor Fired After Tweets Questioning Black Lives Matter Narrative Must Be Reinstated, Receive Back Pay, Arbitrator Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fucf-professor-fired-after-tweets-questioning-black-lives-matter-narrative-must-be-reinstated-receive-back-pay-arbitrator-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486047&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-151251192-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A University of Central Florida (UCF) professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-college-professor-will-be-fired-after-inquisition-stemming-from-controversial-tweets\">who was fired<\/a> after some tweets questioning certain Black Lives Matter narratives must be reinstated, with tenure, and receive back pay, an arbitrator has decided.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Negy, an associate psychology professor, was the victim of a prolonged campaign by UCF to find a reason to fire him after he posted some tweets that angered activist students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that a university would pursue a pretextual investigation with a foregone conclusion to fire a tenured professor because the professor does not conform to \u2018diversity\/equity\/inclusion\u2019 (DEI) ideology is \u2014 pretty disgusting in my opinion. University of Central Florida (UCF) investigated my entire 22 year career with them in search of something \u2014 <em>anything<\/em> \u2014 that they believed they could use to justify their firing of me,\u201d Negy <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2022\/05\/fired-u-central-florida-prof-charles-negy-ordered-reinstated-with-tenure-and-back-pay\/\">said<\/a> in a statement to Legal Insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>The case went to an arbitrator because Negy is a union member, Cornell Law School Professor William Jacobson wrote at the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point in 2020 a furor erupts over tweets from his twitter account, activity not related to his duties and also is protected free speech,\u201d arbitrator Ben Falcigno <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Arbitrators-Award-and-Opinion-Charles-Negy-and-UCF.pdf\">wrote<\/a> in his Arbitration Award opinion on May 16. \u201cThere ensues a campaign by UCF to find out more about Dr. Negy\u2019s classroom performance as related by his students. UCF reaches out to previous students, gets a number of responses and determines that serious misconduct has been occurring for years, lamenting that no system for detecting such misconduct existed to alert management to such disrepute. And, the misconduct is of such magnitude that the only course of action is immediate termination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One deleted tweet from Negy in the summer of 2020, shortly after Minneapolis resident George Floyd was killed by police and riots erupted across the country, asked: \u201cIf Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming \u2018systematic racism\u2019 exists?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another deleted tweet, Negy said: \u201cBlack privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they\u2019re missing out on much needed feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students saw the tweets and protested against Negy, with UCF\u2019s president participating. A Change.org petition was also created, gathering more than 30,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>But for the 18 years Negy worked as a tenured professor prior to those tweets, he had received glowing annual evaluations and several awards, arbitrator Falcigno acknowledged. \u201cThere is no evidence that UCF gave him reason to believe he was anything but as highly esteemed as his evaluations and treatment, with no reason to perform differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But after the tweets, UCF sought comments from previous students in order to find a reason to terminate Negy, Falcigno wrote. The university made no effort to give Negy a chance to correct his behavior before determining his behavior was \u201cunacceptable, was deleterious to students, and was dangerous,\u201d according to Michael Johnson, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at UCF.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the way UCF handled the situation, Falcigno ruled that UCF must reinstate Negy, with tenure, and provide \u201call compensation and benefits fully restored to that in effect as of the termination date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, after a year and a half of grieving this with the assistance of the United Faculty of Florida\u2019s Union-appointed attorney (H.B. Stiver of Tallahassee, Florida), I learned that I\u2019ve been fully reinstated in my job with full back-pay and benefits,\u201d Negy told Legal Insurrection. \u201cI do anticipate that I will file a lawsuit against UCF really soon.\u00a0UCF Administrators (and all university administrators) need to get the message that they cannot simply \u2018purge\u2019 or even discipline professors who do not conform to the DEI ideology that they are imposing on entire university campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCF Assistant Vice President for Communications Chad Binette said the university disagreed with the determination, but said the school would \u201cfollow the arbitrator\u2019s ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCF stands by the actions taken following a thorough investigation that found repeated misconduct in Professor Negy\u2019s classroom, including imposing his views about religion, sex and race. However, we are obligated to follow the arbitrator\u2019s ruling,\u201d Binette told Legal Insurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Central Florida (UCF) professor who was fired after some tweets questioning certain Black Lives Matter narratives must be reinstated, with tenure, and receive back pay, an arbitrator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1486085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}