Colleges Fire Employees Over Remarks About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

University officials decried the comments.

People lay flowers and items in memory of Charlie Kirk at Timpanogos Regional Hospital, in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 11, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Several universities have terminated employees who made what they described as inappropriate remarks about the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

Cumberland University, a private liberal arts college in Lebanon, Tennessee, said on Sept. 12 it was firing a faculty member and a staff member. They made “inappropriate comments on the internet related to the tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk,” Cumberland President Paul Stumb said in a statement.