Collin College

• 
• SOURCE: KERA
  6/6/2022
  

  Collin College Prof Fired over Speech Lands at SMU

  Michael Phillips will join the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU after his firing from Collin College over social media criticism of Confederate statues and other aspects of racism. 

• 
• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/31/2022
  

  Collin College Fires Another Outspoken Professor

  Michael Phillips contends that his contract was not renewed because he had violated a "gag rule" by discussing the campus's COVID policies with his students. He had previously drawn criticism for his work advocating the removal of Confederate memorials in the city of Dallas.

• 
• SOURCE: D Magazine
  3/30/2021
  

  At Collin College, a Collision Over Free Speech

  History Professor Michael Phillips of Collin College charges that the administration and local politicians are conducting a "purge" of progressive ideas from the campus. 

• 
• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/16/2021
  

  What a Public-Information Act Request Revealed About My College President

  by L.D. Burnett

  Were threats of disciplinary action against a professor for her private tweets demanded by angry state legislators holding the purse strings, or were they efforts to silence critics of a college president's handling of COVID protocols? 

• 
• SOURCE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
  1/29/2021
  

  Texas Attorney General: Collin College Must Release Records of Legislator ‘Contacts’ about Professor’s Pence Tweet

  A Texas community college will be required to disclose which state legislators supposedly contacted the adminstration to complain about a tweet by history professor Lora Burnett. The alleged pressure from legislators was a key talking point in administrative actions which Burnett has characterized as retaliation and intimidation against her free speech rights.