Higher Education And State Government News

Texas State professor fights termination over off-campus Israel-Palestine remarks

A Texas State University philosophy professor, Idris Robinson, filed a federal lawsuit to block his May 31 termination, alleging administrators retaliated against him for an off-campus talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in violation of his First Amendment rights; the university placed him on paid leave and later declined to renew his contract, a move Robinson says violates speech protections and which follows other university controversies over faculty remarks.