On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > Sadly Salaita's reinstatement still seems highly unlikely, and perhaps > even undesirable considering hostility and resentment he is likely to face > there. But this may clear the way for some kind of resolution. >
As I had commented earlier, despite his public pronouncements, it seemed unlikely to me that Salaita would ever get his job back. And that's what has happened. The size of the settlement may offer Salaita some vindication, but it is hard to see this as a victory: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/steven-salaita-wont-get-job-back-deal-univ-illinois -----------------------------snip Steven Salaita <https://electronicintifada.net/tags/steven-salaita> will not be reinstated under the terms of an out of court settlement with the University of Illinois <https://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois>. The deal will pay Salaita $875,000 – about ten times the annual salary he would have received as a tenured professor in the American Indian Studies program at the university’s flagship Urbana-Champaign <https://electronicintifada.net/tags/university-illinois-urbana-champaign> campus. “This settlement is a vindication for me, but more importantly, it is a victory for academic freedom and the First Amendment,” Salaita said in a release <https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/settlement-reached-case-professor-fired-uncivil-tweets> from his legal counsel, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the law firm Loevy & Loevy. The settlement brings an end to Salaita’s breach of contract lawsuit against university trustees and administrators over his August 2014 firing because of his tweets excoriating Israel’s attack on Gaza. Salaita had sought reinstatement as well as financial damages. The terms of the deal will come as a surprise to some supporters. His lawyers had said all along that Salaita was willing to settle, but that his primary goal would be to get his job back. The university has been adamant, however, that it would not allow him into the classroom.
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