G&R Episode 69: Professors fired from Collin College, Retaliation in Texas

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Feb 9, 2021 · 59m

In our latest episode, we talk with two professors with exemplary records at Collin College, outside Dallas, who were recently fired for criticizing the school's COVID policies. Audra Heaslip and Suzanne Jones (@Sesjones), both longtime professors, questioned President Neil Matkin's dismissal of COVID concerns, his insistence on returning to in-person classes, and his refusal to create a COVID dashboard. Matkin also withheld information from the campus community about a faculty member who had died from COVID for weeks. And he cited Heaslip's and Jones's membership in the Texas Faculty…