Charlie Hermes, a University of Texas at Arlington faculty member who has been arrested three times over civil disobedience while protesting in the past year, has been placed on paid administrative leave at the university.
In a March 7 letter Hermes shared with the Report, Miriam Byrd, the chair of UTA’s Department of Philosophy and Humanities, informed Hermes of his leave and cited “numerous complaints” about his teaching as the reasoning behind the move.
Hermes, a senior lecturer in the philosophy department who has taught at the university for 18 years, said he was blindsided by the leave. He pointed to his annual evaluation with Byrd weeks earlier that cited several positive comments from students…