Kansas Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce (R-Hutchinson) issued the following statement Thursday Evening in response to the decision by the University of Kansas to allow Professor David Guth to return to work.

“This is a sad day for the University of Kansas and our state as a whole,” said Bruce. “When Professor Guth took to social media to wish death and damnation upon innocent children it reflected poorly on us all. By failing to render stronger sanctions against him for his actions, I fear the legislature will conclude that the University of Kansas has just given its endorsement to the culture of violence Professor Guth sought to glorify.”

It was announced Thursday afternoon that the journalism professor who was suspended over the tweet that angrily targeted the National Rifle Association after the Navy Yard shootings will not return to his University of Kansas classroom in 2013.

Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced Thursday that David Guth, who was placed on administrative leave Sept. 20, would not teach the rest of this semester and would take a planned sabbatical in the spring. Teaching assignments for the fall of 2014 are not yet set.

However, in place of teaching, Guth has been assigned additional non-classroom responsibilities in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications for the remainder of the semester, including various service and administrative assignments. Those assignments will be completed away from campus to the greatest extent possible, according to a news release.

Guth posted the tweet after the September shootings killed 13 people in Washington, D.C. It said, “The blood is on the hands of the (hash)NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you.”

Phone and email messages left with Guth from the Associated Press seeking comment weren’t immediately returned.

*The Associated Press contributed to this story.