January 26, 2007

Professor Files Lawsuit, Then Wins Tenure

By PIPER FOGG

After being fired in 2005, a professor of mathematics at New Mexico Highlands University will return this fall, this time with tenure.

In a lawsuit, Gregg H. Turner had accused the administration of denying him tenure for speaking out against its president at the time, Manny M. Aragon. The university agreed in a settlement last summer to pay the professor $170,000 and give him another shot at tenure.

"It's been a long two years," said Mr. Turner, who has spent the past year as a

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