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A hate-filled Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a leave of absence as the school probes her “hostile and threatening” social media history, which included calling for a “white man” to die while she danced. Dr. Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born academic who has worked at the elite Pittsburgh research institution since 2021, initially bragged about being untouchable over her hateful online history, which has included wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” painful death and celebrating the death of “s–tbag” Charlie Kirk. The school issued a statement announcing the investigation and noting she was on a “voluntary” leave a day after...

A Carnegie Mellon University professor is on a voluntary sabbatical while school officials review what they called “hostile and threatening social media posts.” Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition, is under scrutiny following a 2021 exchange on X in which she is alleged to have posted, “Die first, white man,” in a thread between herself and a user with the handle @TheWuhanClan. That user shared screenshots of the five-year-old exchanged on Friday. Carnegie Mellon posted to X on Friday, saying, “Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses...

No longer a Bellarmine employee’ Bellarmine University Professor John James is out of work after appearing to joke about the failed assassination attempt against President Donald Trump. “If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss,” the English professor wrote on Instagram after last Saturday’s shooting that took off part of the president’s ear during a rally in Pennsylvania. The Catholic university in Louisville announced soon after that James would be placed on “unpaid leave,” although the social media post did not name him. “Words and actions that condone violence are unacceptable and contrary to our values, which call for respecting the...