


“Though we have decided to settle, we adamantly deny that anyone at Shawnee State deprived Dr. The university is also rescinding a written warning issued in 2018, according to the release. Nick Meriwether announced on April 14 that Shawnee State University, about 100 miles east of Cincinnati, settled the case regarding the professor’s right to choose which pronouns to use when referring to students, according to an April 14 news release from the ADF Center for Academic Freedom.Īs part of the lawsuit settlement, the university will pay Meriwether $400,000 in damages and cover the professor’s attorneys’ fees. After a three-year battle, an Ohio university reached a settlement in favor of a professor who refused to use a student’s pronouns.
