Tenured professor who challenged social justice funding fired in secret board vote

“…California’s Kern Community College District didn’t act on termination recommendation during public portion of meeting dominated by Matthew Garrrett’s supporters, including black pastor.

Bakersfield College has fired a tenured history professor formally charged with “dishonesty” for disagreeing with colleagues on diversity issues, including a proposed “racial climate task force” to supersede the gridlocked diversity committee on which he served.

The secretive move against Matthew Garrett followed a contentious public meeting on his fate Thursday.

The Kern Community College District Board of Trustees, whose vice president publicly compared Garrett to livestock that should be culled before apologizing for the remark, apparently held an unrecorded vote without public notice Thursday, either in closed session between morning and afternoon open sessions or after the public meeting. Local media were confused, with KGET reporting that Garrett’s status remained unknown as of noon Friday…”