Confrontation Between Campus Security, Professor Puts Arizona State in Spotlight - Higher Education

Confrontation Between Campus Security, Professor Puts Arizona State in Spotlight - Higher Education: Dr. Ersula Ore, a Black rising-star professor at Arizona State University, had wrapped up her summer class for the evening last month and was heading home, when nearby construction had forced her and several other pedestrians to jaywalk across a busy thoroughfare near campus.

But before Ore could even make her way to the other side of the street last month, she was stopped by Officer Stewart Ferrin, an armed ASU police officer, who demanded to see her photo identification.

Ore, an expert in critical race theory who has held a tenure-track professor in the English department at ASU since 2011, questioned the officer over why he had singled her out over the others, said her Phoenix-based attorney Alane Roby, who added that Ore asked the officer not to speak to her in a disrespectful tone.