Portland area professor suspended for transphobic comments April 26 2021
Pacific University Professor Richard Paxton s suspension raises concerns around culture, process at Forest Grove university.
Pacific University is on the defensive again, as its handling of student complaints against a professor have attracted criticism from the higher education community.
Richard Paxton, a tenured professor of education at the private university in Forest Grove, was placed on leave last October amid a Title IX investigation. The university says it received multiple complaints about Paxton from students, including that he made allegedly transphobic comments on more than one occasion.
Paxton s attorney, Robin DesCamp, says the problems run deeper. As she sees it, the case against her client is just one example of how Pacific is pushing out employees without justification.