Sociology Professor Apologizes for Sharing Racially Insensitive Jokes on Facebook

An adjunct sociology professor at three New Jersey colleges has apologized for sharing racially insensitive jokes on her Facebook page, the South Jersey Times reports.

After an anonymous former student sent reporters printouts of jokes Nancy Reeves had shared about Mexican-American accents, Ms. Reeves said she was “blindsided,” adding that she had shared the jokes because of the wordplay, not the racial jabs. “I don’t consider myself a racist,” she said.

Joe Cardona, a spokesman for Rowan University, where Ms. Reeves teaches, said the college was investigating.

Ms. Reeves added that she had unfriended all of her students and that she would never again accept a friend request from a student.

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A South Jersey college professor apologized this week after someone claiming to be a former student sent copies of racially insensitive Facebook jokes she shared to several media outlets and educational institutions. “I feel terrible,” said Nancy Reeves of Woodbury, an adjunct sociology professor at Rowan College at Gloucester County, Rowan University and Widener University.

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