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In October 2020, professor Garrett Ferber publicly criticized his department chair for rejecting a grant to a community education program focused on racial justice and incarceration, tweeting that the University of Mississippi was motivated by a desire to protect “racist donor money.” Following the tweets, Felber’s department chair requested to have a phone conversation, then video conferences, with Felber to discuss the tweets. Felber — on leave for a year-long fellowship at Harvard — replied that he preferred to communicate in writing. In December, the department chair recommended that Felber’s contract be nonrenewed. �鶹��ýIOS wrote to the University on December 18, 2020, asking it to account for the university’s response and reconsider the nonrenewal. Felber subsequently retained an attorney and reached a settlement with the university.