Overview
- An eight-member faculty committee unanimously concluded the university lacked good cause and bypassed required procedures in dismissing McCoul.
- The committee rejected all three stated grounds for termination and said administrators offered no evidence of an investigation or due process.
- McCoul was terminated after a student’s secret recording of a gender-identity lesson went viral via Rep. Brian Harrison; the university cited course misalignment, which her attorney disputes.
- The panel said the university should have examined whether the student who recorded the class violated rules against disrupting instruction.
- Regents have since required presidential preapproval for courses seen as advocating race or gender ideology and barred teaching beyond approved syllabi, as McCoul’s lawyer warns of court action if she is not reinstated.