The failing grade has prompted protests at the University of Oklahoma in recent weeks, and the state's governor weighed in.

The instructor, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, gave a zero to a student who wrote an essay arguing in ...

Fulnecky appealed her grade on the assignment, which was worth 3% of the final grade in the class, and the university said the assignment would not count. It also placed Curth on leave, and Oklahoma’s ...