Carnegie Mellon University says it is moving forward with disciplinary action against associate professor Uju Anya after concluding that her recent social media posts breached the university’s community standards, prompting some colleagues to say they now fear for their safety.
In a statement shared with Fox News Digital, university president Farnam Jahanian and provost James H. Garrett Jr. said Anya had used “expletives, racial slurs and derogatory language that demeaned, dehumanized and intimidated,” while invoking her Carnegie Mellon affiliation and suggesting she had backing from colleagues.
“Carnegie Mellon University is a place where rigorous inquiry, freedom of expression and mutual respect must coexist. We take that responsibility seriously, and we strongly reject language that is hateful and disparages or calls for the harm of others.”
The statement added that Anya’s “choice of language violates our shared community standards and distracts from the seriousness and significance of CMU’s scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.”
The university confirmed Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave through summer 2027 and is not teaching classes this academic year.
What Anya posted
Anya, an associate professor whose scholarship focuses on language learning and Black experiences in multilingualism, wrote on X as the anniversary of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination approached: “They began already, and it ain’t even Kirkmas kirk mubarak, y’all!”
Another post attributed to her read: “Die first, White man, and then ask yourself why I am dancing.”
Her X account now appears to have been deleted.
Campus response
Carnegie Mellon said university leaders met with faculty and administrators over the weekend after employees reported being doxxed and receiving threatening messages in the wake of the posts. Campus police are monitoring the situation but have not identified any credible threats to the university, according to the school.
Jahanian and Garrett said the university would take
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