UM Disciplines Professor Who Wouldn’t Write Recommendation

This time when they told him not to let politics interfere with his professional duties, they actually attached punishments. “The University of Michigan has disciplined a professor who ignited controversy last month when he rescinded an offer of a recommendation letter for a student to study in Israel,” Martin Stagter wrote in The Ann Arbor News on October 10, 2018. “John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor of American Culture at UM, is no longer eligible for a merit pay increase for the 2018-19 academic year.”

“The university has also frozen his sabbatical eligibility for two years, until the fall of 2020. Cheney had scheduled a sabbatical for the winter 2019 and will now have to wait until fall of 2020 to take it.”

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