Indiana Professor Who Taught Anti-White Supremacy Lesson Loses Job

An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job.

Administrators suspended the instructor, Jessica Adams, in October from teaching the course, “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice,” after Senator Jim Banks, an ally of President Trump, contacted the campus about the lecture.

In May, the university said it would not reappoint Ms. Adams, a lecturer who did not have tenure, “after a careful review” of her work. Her employment will end this month, according to a May 22 letter from Latha Ramchand, the university’s executive vice president.

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Ms. Adams was investigated under a controversial law passed in Indiana meant to further “intellectual diversity” and prevent students from being subjected to political views unrelated to the course. Professors and academic freedom groups have decried the law, saying it chills free-flowing conversations in classrooms and amounts to state-sponsored censorship.

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A student complained in September to Mr. Banks, who then told the university that the student was uncomfortable in the graduate-level course. A message for Mr. Banks was not immediately returned. Ms. Adams said she had regularly taught the materials since joining the university’s School of Social Work in 2020.

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The complaint from Kalea Benner, the dean of the School of Social Work, said that the graphic lists “Make America Great Again” as covert white supremacy that is “worse than police killing people of color.”

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