Professors were disciplined for vulgar posts after Charlie Kirk's assassination: where are they now?
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Professors reinstated after controversial Charlie Kirk assassination posts receive settlements. Austin Peay State University paid associate professor Darren Michael $500,000.
Peter D'Abrosca is a reporter at Fox News Digital covering campus extremism in higher education.
On Dec. 30, Austin Peay State University in Tennessee sent a message to community members notifying them that Darren Michael, an associate professor of acting and directing, had been reinstated. Michael was fired on Sept. 12, two days after Kirk's assassination. He shared a post with a 2023 remark by Kirk that gun deaths were "unfortunately worth it" to protect the Second Amendment. Follow Peter on X at @pmd_reports. Send story tips to peter.dabrosca@fox.com.
On top of being rehired, Austin Peay acknowledged that it had not followed its own policies for terminating tenured faculty, and paid Michael a $500,000 settlement, according to local reports.
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