Court Upholds Kansas State's Use of Post-Tenure Review to Dismiss Professor

A state-court judge has upheld the decision of officials at Kansas State University's main campus to fire a tenured professor who was dismissed as a result of the institution's post-tenure-review process. The former professor's lawyer vowed to appeal the ruling.

Kansas State fired Steven C. Wiest, a professor of horticulture, two years ago because of "chronic low achievement." Under the university's post-tenure-review process, the institution can begin dismissal proceedings after a

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