The diversity officer, Angela McCaskill, was placed on leave in October after administrators became aware that she had signed a petition in Maryland circulated by a group seeking to overturn the state’s gay-marriage law. Voters upheld the law in November. Some people on the campus had said they were concerned that Ms. McCaskill was the wrong person to lead an office that promotes diversity. But people on both sides of the debate said she shouldn’t be punished for exercising her First Amendment rights.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/gallaudet-u-reinstates-diversity-officer-in-flap-over-petition-against-gay-marriage?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en