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Professor group offers roadmap to fire tenured professor who studies race and intelligence

The latest occasion for AAUP’s wishy-washiness is an uproar at California State University-East Bay over an emeritus professor of economics whose research includes the intersection of race and intelligence.

A Change.org petition calls on the public university to fire Gregory Christainsen (above), who continues to teach part-time, for his purported promotion of “race realism” that justifies “racial and gender stereotypes through the use of statistics,” namely the results of IQ tests.

The petition, with more than 2,100 signatures as of Tuesday night, also calls on CSUEB to stop funding “controversial journal publications” such as Christainsen’s and ignore tenure so it can fire faculty for “racist behavior.”

Hank Reichman, who chairs AAUP’s committee on academic freedom and tenure and is also retired from CSUEB, suggested Christainsen’s colleagues pursue his dismissal for “research misconduct” as a way around academic freedom hurdles. (That was the same approach taken by Portland State University against a professor for his “grievance studies” hoax.)