At least four professors have said their requests to participate in lawsuits challenging state policy were rejected. Faculty say the stakes are sky-high.
The revelation means that the university’s denial of three faculty members’ requests to testify in voting-rights litigation was not an isolated incident.
<p>The University's prior explanation, that faculty are free to serve as witnesses to litigation against the state on a pro-bono basis on their own time, appears to be contradicted by efforts to stop a pediatrics professor from testifying pro bono in favor of school mask mandates.</p>
<p>The University of Florida had told three faculty members that their work as consultants for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state's restrictive new voting laws are "adverse to the university's interests"; will this affect the school's accreditation as a violation of the institution's independence?</p>