Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon — widely praised in the past for advancing diversity on his Indiana campus — has pledged to push DEI even further after making an off-color joke mocking Asians during a recent commencement ceremony.
“I am truly sorry for my unplanned, off-the-cuff response to another speaker, as my words have caused confusion, pain, and anger,” Keon (pictured at podium) said in an official apology statement issued after the Dec. 10 incident.
A petition launched Dec. 16 demands he resign from his post as well as mandatory “anti-racist training for all administrators, staff, faculty, students at Purdue University Northwest.”
