Salaita speaks out, asks for his job back

After more than a month of public silence – even on the Twitter account that apparently cost him a job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Steven Salaita spoke out last week, writes Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed.

The would-have-been tenured professor of American Indian studies whose offer was pulled weeks before classes started staged an off-campus news conference and granted media interviews, asking for his job back. Salaita said the turmoil surrounding the university’s decision not to pass his faculty-backed candidacy on to the board of trustees for approval – considered by many in academe to be a formality – constituted a “teaching moment”.
Full report on the Inside Higher Ed site