USM fires two tenured faculty members

2004-03-08T18:52:12Z 2004-03-08T18:52:12Z USM fires two tenured faculty members 2004-03-08T23:26:20Z

There’s a big brou-ha-ha down in Hattiesburg at the University of Southern Mississippi: two tenured faculty members are being terminated by the university administration, apparently for speaking out against a university vice-president. More details at <a href="http://www.erinoconnor.org/archives/000882.html" title="No free speech at Southern Miss."><cite>Critical Mass</cite></a>, <a href="http://scott.littlemeanfish.com/blog/"><cite>I Know What I Know</cite></a> (just start at the <a href="http://scott.littlemeanfish.com/blog/archives/000750.html">top</a> and keep scrolling down), <a href="http://volokh.com/2004_03_07_volokh_archive.html#107879035707294419"><cite>The Volokh Conspiracy</cite></a>, the <a title="President of U. of Southern Mississippi Suspends 2 Professors Who Aided an AAUP Inquiry" href="http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=cohxlhdgv8zge0kb6ynag15dzu3wrxka"><cite>Chronicle of Higher Education</cite></a>, and <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0403/08/musmprotest2.html">the <cite>Clarion-Ledger</cite></a>. Update: More at <a href="http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001487.html"><cite>Crooked Timber</cite></a> and <a href="http://mattweiner.net/blog/archives/000137.html"><cite>Opiniatrety</cite></a>, as well as <a href="http://www.hnn.us/blogs/entries/3981.html"><cite>Cliopatria</cite></a> (I take issue with the latter’s characterization of higher education in Mississippi in general, however) and <a href="http://coldspringshops.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_coldspringshops_archive.html#107881289108383850">Stephen Karlson</a>. I promised myself earlier this weekend that I wouldn’t blog about this, because I have a pending application at USM for a <a href="http://www.usm.edu/hr/Postings.htm#3">tenure-track faculty position</a>, but there’s no way I will accept a job at a university that apparently has no respect for the tenure process. http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/1356 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=1356