Collin College strikes again! Dr. Michael Phillips, award-winning scholar, fired! (G&R 138)

Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · Feb 7, 2022 · 1h 3m

Another professor from Collin College has been fired in retaliation for speaking out against President Neil Matkin's continued rejection of their First Amendment rights and their concern for safety on campus.

Michael Philips has now been fired along with Suzanne Stateler Jones, Audra Heaslip, and Lora Burnett, all in violation of their First Amendment righs. Philips first was reprimanded by Collin College for being active in a campaign to remove Confederate statues in Dallas in 2017.

More recently he has defended his fired colleagues and he has urged mask-wearing amid the COVID pandemic…