Stand Against Targeted Threats and Harassment

AAUP National
June 22, 2017

We are dismayed that another faculty member, Johnny Eric Williams of Trinity College, has become the target of a flood of threats following reports about his social media postings by the right-wing media outlet Campus Reform.  In this case, the college was shut down for a day so that law enforcement officials could investigate threats to the college and to the faculty member.  This is the second time this month that an institution of higher education has had to close down in response to threats, disrupting education and creating an environment of fear on campus.

Read the full posting at the national AAUP website here.