Two ETSU educators suspended for Charlie Kirk social media postings

Two faculty members of East Tennessee State University were placed on administrative leave after posting disparaging remarks on social media about political activist and Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk following his shooting death at a Utah rally.

State Senator Bobby Harsbarger, also on social media, said in a statement that he spoke directly with ETSU President Brian Noland and other university leadership about the postings of Associate Chair of Communication Studies & Storytelling Andrew Herrmann and Russell Brown, a professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Quillen College of Medicine.

The senator wrote celebrating or excusing an assassination is vile and unacceptable. Harshbarger also noted faculty engaging in that kind of rhetoric have no place in the classroom.

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