March 16, 2001

Judge Lets College Suspend Professor for Creating 'Hostile Learning Environment'

By RON SOUTHWICK

A federal appeals court has ruled that Macomb Community College has the right to suspend a faculty member for creating a "hostile learning environment," even at the risk of curbing the professor's free-speech rights. The ruling came in a dispute over an

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The full text of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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