The review of Joeckel’s employment comes as Florida Gov. “He is open-minded, and never wants to push his agenda on students he pushes students to be critical thinkers and open-minded. ![]() Lauren Carleton, who graduated in May, told CNN she had taken two of Joeckel’s classes and didn’t feel she was being pressured to think a certain way. PBA is a private Christian university and its employee handbook says, “Discontinuance of employment may occur at any time, without cause, at the discretion of PBA.” The institution does not offer tenure, the review process for employment decisions regarding senior faculty that is meant to safeguard academic freedom.Ī number of students came to Joeckel’s defense online. The university is “not commenting on a personnel matter,” a school spokesperson told CNN in a statement Monday. Joeckel said his conversation with his employers indicated the investigation was prompted by a complaint from a parent. That was the exact word they used: indoctrinating,” Joeckel said. “The told me they had concerns that I was indoctrinating students. Joeckel was given a letter from the university, which he shared with CNN, informing him a decision about his employment would be made by March 15. The two told him his contract renewal for next year would be on hold as they investigated the materials used in the racial justice unit, he said. Joeckel said he has been teaching a unit on racial justice in classes for many years without complaints until his provost and dean said Wednesday they needed to talk to him “privately ” at the end of a class. “The racial justice unit is what got me in hot water,” Sam Joeckel told CNN. An English professor at Florida’s Palm Beach Atlantic University says his job is under review after his employer told him it received a complaint that he is “indoctrinating” students.
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