Adjunct Challenges College's Accreditation Over Alleged Failure to Stop Union Retaliation

By Peter Schmidt

Jack Longmate, a part-time English instructor involved in a long-running battle with the faculty union at Olympic College in Washington State, is now challenging that community college's accreditation based on a claim that it failed to protect him from union retaliation for his dissent from union positions.

In a letter submitted to the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, Mr. Longmate