May 14, 2004

2 Professors at U. of Southern Mississippi Settle for Pay Without Jobs

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

Two tenured professors at the University of Southern Mississippi whose proposed firings drew widespread complaints will retain their jobs for two more years, but they will not return to the classroom.

Details of the deal were announced late last month, after Mississippi's College Board, the state's higher-education governing body, held a special meeting to approve it. The settlement was reached between the professors and the university's president, Shelby F. Thames, cutting short a

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