Professor Disciplined for Privacy Violation

A Metropolitan (Denver, CO) State College political-science professor has been disciplined in a highly publicized case in which a student accused her of political bias in the classroom.

Metro is punishing tenured professor Oneida J. Meranto for violating a federal student privacy law, not for political bias, a claim student George Culpepper lobbed against her.

The standoff came last winter while the contentious “academic bill of rights” was before the state legislature. The proposal, which was intended to protect students from political bias among professors, did not become law.

The conflict took on a national flare when U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, asked the U.S Department of Education to investigate.

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