Penn Law’s Wax Says She Has ‘No Plans’ to Leave School

Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger has said tenured Professor Amy Wax’s recent remarks on race were “repugnant to the core values and institutional practices” of the university, but she said she is not planning to leave the school despite widespread calls for her to step down from teaching.

Students and alumni have called on the university to strip Wax of teaching duties after she reportedly said at a conservative political conference last week that the U.S. “would be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.”

Wax is taking a planned sabbatical for the upcoming academic year, according to a ...