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Via The College Fix:
A white biology instructor who repeatedly warned her students to behave themselves has been yanked out of the classroom for the semester and required to undergo classroom management training.
The University of Texas-San Antonio cleared Anita Moss of showing racial bias toward a black student, who has a history of being disruptive, by calling campus police on her.
But a second investigation faulted the senior lecturer for telling students throughout the fall semester to “be respectful in class” by keeping their feet off chairs, putting away their phones and not talking.
Moss even asked one group of students to separate for the rest of the semester, as they were causing constant disruptions, according to the report by Howard Grimes, interim dean of the College of Sciences.
The student whom Moss called the police on never filed a complaint and has since apologized to the instructor for her behavior.
Moss may have escaped sanctions altogether, including three years of probation, if not for another student who posted video of campus police leading away the disruptive student.
Moss, Faculty Senate Chair Emily Bonner and Operating Procedures Chair Glenn Dietrich did not respond to College Fix calls or emails about the situation.
Kelly Suter, chair of the Academic Freedom, Evaluation and Merit Committee and Moss’s biology colleague, told The Fix she had a “very strong” response to this but wanted to alert media relations and Bonner before issuing a statement.
Bonner had “made some suggestions to the faculty senate executive committee about what she viewed as an appropriate response to the incident,” Suter wrote in an email. She did not issue a further statement.
Asked if the sanctions against Moss could create a campus climate where faculty are wary of disciplining students for misbehaving in class, Chief Communications Officer Joe Izbrand responded to The Fix by linking President Taylor Eighmy’s official statements.
Students called her ‘one of the best instructors they had’
The Grimes report found that Moss had no history of classroom mismanagement and qualified as an “excellent professor,” from both internal faculty evaluations and external RateMyProfessor student reviews.
Interviewed students even claimed that Moss “was one of the best instructors they had at UTSA.”
Those were no match for the negative media attention that poured over UTSA after a viral tweet led many observers to believe Moss’s actions were racially motivated.
“[A] girl had her feet up and the professor called the police after calling our class uncivil,” student Apurva Rawal wrote in the Nov. 12 tweet, showing video of Moss leading campus police to a black student later identified as Paige Burgess.
Rawal continued in the tweet thread that Moss “went on a whole tirade” in the previous class session “about how uncivil we all were because a few students were on their phone or not paying attention, cutting lecture time for the rest of us because her ego was bruised.”
Moss chose to “throw a temper tantrum” and cancel class, but even worse was her decision to “single out and humiliate a student just to flex her authority in a destructive manner,” Rawal wrote. In a longer statement, he said Moss had started class by handing out “a printed list of UTSA Student Conduct and Community Standards” on civil behavior.