Vanessa Miller The Gazette

CEDAR FALLS — Shy of firing university employees who made inflammatory comments following the fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week, Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday directed its three public campuses to launch immediate investigations into any employee accused of violating their social media policy.

The directive — which received unanimous support from the nine regents — set a two-week deadline for the campus investigations, also mandating the universities place on administrative leave or remove from the classroom any employees under investigation.

The universities did not immediately provide a number of employees under investigation on each of the campuses.

But the regent directive authorized the institutions to “take immediat

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