Former MSU professor Amy Wisner required roughly 600 students to sign up for "The Rebellion Community," which her syllabus described as "a global social learning community." The membership cost $99.
Students later learned that Wisner personally operated the organization, and she would donate proceeds to Planned Parenthood or use them to fund “an RV road trip around the United States to co-create communities of rebels.”
When students complained, MSU fired Wisner and offered students roughly $60,000 from the College of Business to refund them for any money they paid to "The Rebellion Community." The lawsuit brought by students argues that Wisner should personally pay back the money.
Nathan Barbieri and Nolan Radomski filed the lawsuit against Wisner and two other college faculty members over the incident. Both students took a required business communication course taught by Wisner. They are being represented by Alliance Defending Freedom.
“I shouldn’t have to pay for my professor’s political activism,” Rodomski told Fox News. “This is a matter of free speech and I hope that the university changes its policy so that other students never have to pay expensive fees toward causes they don’t believe in.”
The suit also asks MSU “to instruct all faculty that their discretion to select course materials does not include authority to require students to pay membership fees to outside organizations or to financially support any private expression.”
