BREAKING: Department of Education to Investigate Tong Case
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The U.S. Department of Education headquarters.
August 21, 2020
According to documents obtained by activist group Campus Reform, the United States Department of Education (DOE) will be investigating the disciplinary actions taken by Fordham University against Austin Tong, Gabelli School of Business at Lincoln Center ’21.
As of Aug. 21, the DOE has issued an official request for transcribed interviews from University President Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., Lincoln Center Dean of Students Keith Eldredge, Assistant Director of Residential Life Kelly Sosa and the Department of Public Safety.
Fordham initially took disciplinary action against Tong in mid-July for two Instagram posts that were deemed to violate the university code of conduct relating to bias and threats/intimidation. Tong subsequently filed a lawsuit against Fordham on July 23 disputing the decision.
As of Aug. 10, the DOE issued a separate brief stating it would require Fordham “to disclose and report statutorily defined gifts, contracts, and/or restricted and conditional gifts or contracts from or with a statutorily defined foreign source(s).”
This is a developing story; check back for updates.
Frank Bifulco • Dec 15, 2021 at 9:17 pm
Fordham is a disgrace. It’s been taken over by left-wing anti-Catholic trash like the Black LIES Matter clowns.
Every good Catholic knows that the black political establishment is the enemy of this Church and Catholics.
Bob Wetjen Prep ‘55 CBA’59 • Aug 29, 2020 at 1:57 pm
Fordham has been teaching social justice, diversity and respect for the mores of others since I was a student. Yet for a free speech incident they sent uniformed officers to the home of Chinese immigrants and further undermined their principles by sending their student son to the equivalent of a re-education camp.
Roy Parker • Aug 23, 2020 at 4:38 pm
With students like Gabriela Rivera complaining about her skewed view of social justice, I hope that this investigation will expose the corrupt teachings of its neo-left faculty and the dirty money that comes into the school which totally undermines the Jesuit foundation of this formerly fine institution.
I am willing to bet that certain pro communists Chinese financiers are the real injured party still recovering from the black eye of Tiananmen Square. Since not politically feasible, they use patsies like Gabriela to manufacture outrage and create false narratives.