Unc Professor Dixon Reinstated After Threat Assessment
Professor Dwayne Dixon reinstated at UNC after threat assessment found no danger to students/faculty. Investigation followed concerns over his activism and associations. Extensive threat evaluation carried out.Professor Dixon’s Reinstatement at UNC
” The Carolina Behavioral Hazard Assessment and Management Team consulted with the UNC System safety workplace and with regional law enforcement, undertaking a robust, speedy and efficient testimonial of all the evidence. We have actually located no basis to conclude that he poses a danger to College student, team, and faculty, or has participated in conduct that breaks College policy,” Stoyer stated in a statement. “Because of this, the College is renewing Professor Dixon to his professors responsibilities, efficient immediately.”
Dwayne Dixon, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was restored Friday after the university carried out a “extensive threat evaluation,” Dean Stoyer, vice chancellor for communications and marketing, said in a declaration.
Background and Controversies
Dixon is a teaching associate teacher of Eastern and Middle Eastern research studies at UNC Chapel Hillside, and he’s been energetic at counterprotests to alt-right rallies, including at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. He’s likewise a solid supporter for gun rights and used to be a participant of the Silver Spring Hillbilly Rebellion, a chapter of the now-disbanded antifascist, antiracist, anticapitalist political team Hillbilly Revolt. Andrew Kolvet, an agent for the late Charlie Kirk’s Transforming Point United States, required Dixon to be discharged in an X post because of these associations.
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