From Inside Higher Ed: Susan McMahon, an educator, author and podcaster, will no longer be Utah Valley University’s commencement speaker, following backlash over her social media posts about Charlie Kirk’s death... After Kirk was fatally shot while speaking on UVU’s campus last year, McMahon made a post that has since been deleted listing quotes from Kirk, with the caption, “These aren’t sound bites taken out of context. Millions of people feel they were harmed, and the murder that was horrific and should never have happened does not magically erase what was said or done.”
When UVU announced last week that McMahon would be this year’s commencement speaker, university president Astrid Tuminez called her “a force of nature and a force for good...” But backlash came swiftly. The president of UVU’s Turning Point USA chapter criticized the decision to host McMahon as “tone-deaf and disrespectful to those still affected” by Kirk’s assassination... The university announced in a press release Thursday that McMahon would no longer speak at graduation due to safety concerns...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/04/17/commencement-speaker-who-criticized-charlie-kirk-out-uvu.
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