He was a professor of humanities at Ferris State University, who founded the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism (ISAR).
[5] In January 2022, Mehler posted an expletive-laden video[6] to his YouTube channel to welcome students to his class.
He discouraged students from attending class in-person due to the risk of transmitting COVID.
In the video, Mehler referred to his students as "vectors of disease" and claimed he had given each one of them a grade before the class had even started.
[8] After a federal judge declined to reinstate him, Mehler settled with the university out of court and retired.