{"id":159325,"date":"2020-09-05T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/05\/jessica-krug-university-cancels-classes-by-white-academic-who-posed-as-black\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T13:33:21","slug":"jessica-krug-university-cancels-classes-by-white-academic-who-posed-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159325","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Krug: university cancels classes by white academic who posed as black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University working on options for studentsProvost and dean acknowledge \u2018pain\u2019 caused by scandalGeorge Washington University has cancelled the classes set to be taught by Jessica Krug, a professor who claimed to be black when in fact she was a white Jewish woman from suburban Kansas City.In a statement released on Friday night, the University provost, Brian Blake, and dean, Paul Wahlbeck, wrote: \u201cDr Krug will not be teaching her classes this semester. We are working on developing a number of options for students in those classes, which will be communicated to affected students as soon as possible.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/sep\/05\/jessica-krug-george-washington-university-cancels-classes-white-black\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Krug: university cancels classes by white academic who posed as black<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University working on options for studentsProvost and dean acknowledge \u2018pain\u2019 caused by scandalGeorge Washington University has cancelled the classes set to be taught by Jessica Krug, a professor who claimed to be black when in fact she was a white Jewish woman from suburban Kansas City.In a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}