Dive Brief:
- Students say a University of Colorado at Boulder professor told her class she wouldn't be teaching anymore after the administration deemed her lecture on prostitution inappropriate.
- A spokesman for the university said Professor Patti Adler is still a tenured faculty member, but students say Adler said she was being forced into retirement.
- The prostitution lecture is a skit in which Adler's teaching assistants dress up as sex slaves and escorts and describe their lifestyles.
Dive Insight:
This may not be over: Some students created a Facebook group backing Patti Adler and many students appear to support the professor, taking issue with the administration's purported objections to the lecture.