Scott Gerber is (or perhaps we should now say “was”) a tenured law professor at Ohio Northern University. In April, he was hauled out of his class one day by law school officials, escorted by armed guards, taken to the dean’s office, and told to submit his resignation. Gerber did not do so and demanded to know on what grounds he was being subjected to such extraordinary treatment. The school has not replied with anything specific, hiding behind vague workplace hostility accusations. The reason is undoubtedly ideological. Gerber had the temerity to object to the school’s DEI policies. Thin-skinned academic types can’t abide dissent on that.
Minding the Campus has just published an article by one of Professor Gerber’s former students, Justin Marks. In it, he shows just what a nasty piece of work the dean of the law school is. Because Marks contributed to the professor’s defense fund, Dean Rose made the slanderous accusation that he did so only because Gerber wrote an article for him.
Marks asks why the university’s board is sitting around like potted plants while the president and the dean of the law school do things that are very damaging to the school’s reputation. That is a very good question.