Court Denies Conservative Pundit-Professor’s Bias Claim Against University

by E Wayne Ross on March 17, 2010

The Chronicle: Court Denies Conservative Pundit-Professor’s Bias Claim Against University

A federal court has rejected a claim that the University of North Carolina at Wilmington committed viewpoint discrimination against Michael S. Adams, a prominent conservative commentator and associate professor of criminology, by denying him a promotion based partly on its review of online columns and other expressions of opinion that he included in his application to move up the ranks.