‘Leaves Me Speechless’: Med School President Cancels Anti-Woke Speaker, Cites ‘Safety’ Concerns

A medical college president canceled an event featuring speakers critical of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) after students and faculty members wrote a letter opposing the event, according to documents obtained by National Association of Scholars’ (NAS) Director of University Policy John Sailer.

The Wisconsin Association of Scholars, a branch of NAS, were scheduled to host a symposium titled “Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Medicine and the Sciences: Uses and Abuses” on May 12 at the Medical College of Wisconsin that featured a speaker panel including Sailer, Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Republican state Rep. Dave Murphy, according to Sailer’s Twitter thread.

College president John Raymond sent a letter on Thursday announcing he had “decided to rescind the use of [the college’s] facilities” because discussions about the event became “unacceptably disruptive.”