Muhlenberg College, which recently fired a professor for social media activity expressing her views on the Israel-Hamas conflict , has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to settle concerns over how the college investigated complaints against her.
While Maura Finkelstein was not directly named in Monday’s announcement, a letter from the OCR in Philadelphia to Muhlenberg College President Kathleen Harring links to a change.org petition that called for Finkelstein’s firing.
Finkelstein, who is Jewish and worked for the college as a tenured professor of nine years, was fired in May for sharing on her personal Instagram account a post written by a Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi, as originally reported by The Intercept …