Dive Brief:

• The University of Colorado at Boulder may give another chance to a professor who said she was being forced into retirement.
• Patti Adler could teach her popular "Deviance in U.S. Society" course this spring, which featured a prostitution lecture some deemed inappropriate, if a peer review before the start of the semester clears the class.
• A school spokesman said the course review would need to be "fast-tracked" to finish on time and that Adler knows that the review is an option but has not agreed to it.

Dive Insight:

The school has acknowledged that Adler was suspended from teaching her class after the prostitution lecture, but it has denied that she is being forced into retirement. According to the local paper, the professor gave a different version of events earlier this week: "Adler, however, told the Daily Camera on Monday that university administrators gave her an ultimatum: take a buyout and retire, or stay at the university but not teach her signature class next semester. The second option came with a caveat, Adler said. If the administration received even one complaint about her, Adler said she was told she would be fired immediately, without retirement benefits."