Wisconsin Professor Suspended for Criticizing University’s DEI Initiative Reaches Settlement Agreement

A professor has reached a settlement agreement with a Wisconsin university after he was suspended for criticizing its shift toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The Lutheran Church-affiliated Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW) suspended professor of philosophy Rev. Gregory Schulz in February 2022 after he published an essay titled “Woke Dysphoria at Concordia,” according to Rev. Schulz’s law firm, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL). In the essay published in Christian News, Rev. Schulz wrote that the university is experiencing dysphoria, or unease, because it has been influenced by “Woke-ism,” which he defined as “a potent cocktail of Progressivism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Marxism.”...