{"id":40980,"date":"2025-09-15T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/sc-attorney-general-says-clemson-can-fire-staff-over-controversial-social-media-posts\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:00:13","slug":"sc-attorney-general-says-clemson-can-fire-staff-over-controversial-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/sc-attorney-general-says-clemson-can-fire-staff-over-controversial-social-media-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Attorney General Says Clemson Can Fire Staff Over Controversial Social Media Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AreQ2ZZJo6k?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says Clemson University has full legal authority to discipline or even fire faculty members over what he calls \u201cvile\u201d social media posts. In a letter to Clemson\u2019s president, Wilson said the university can take corrective action following backlash over comments made after the death of a student named Kirk. This follows the suspension of a Clemson professor whose post was deemed inappropriate by university leadership.<\/p>\n<p>A special meeting of the Clemson University Board of Trustees is scheduled for 2 p.m. today, though the official agenda has not been made public.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to 7 News WSPA for updates on the outcome of that meeting and how the university plans to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says Clemson University has full legal authority to discipline or even fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}