May 19, 2010
U. of Florida Provokes Faculty Union by Investigating Haiti Documentary Adviser
Kim Baudree for The Chronicle
The U. of Florida is looking into whether Churchill Roberts, above, advised two graduate students to return to Haiti to finish a film in violation of a university ban.
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Kim Baudree for The Chronicle
The U. of Florida is looking into whether Churchill Roberts, above, advised two graduate students to return to Haiti to finish a film in violation of a university ban.
The leadership of the University of Florida's faculty union is crying foul over administrators' investigation of Churchill L. Roberts, a thesis adviser of two graduate students who defied the wishes of campus officials by returning to Haiti after its catastrophic January 12 earthquake to finish work on a documentary.
Although the two students were cleared of any charges of violating university policy, both they and Mr. Roberts, a tenured professor of telecommunication
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