The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has suspended a professor who overturned a table set up by College Republicans

Sabine Martin

UW-Eau Claire faculty leader has been suspended for the next school year without pay after he flipped a table in April that the university’s College Republicans chapter set up on campus for Election Day. 

José Felipe Alvergue, who served as UW-Eau Claire’s English Department chair, won’t return to campus to teach for the academic year and faces disciplinary actions through a settlement with the university.

His suspension is over the April 1 incident at an event the university’s College Republicans student chapter held to support conservative candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court Brad Schimel and Republican-backed state superintendent of public instruction candidate Brittany Kinser. 


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