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October 25, 2009, 06:14 PM ET
Faculty Panel Backs Suspended Professor at Idaho State U.
Acting on a grievance filed by Habib Sadid, an engineering professor at Idaho State University who was suspended in August, a faculty appeals panel has voted, 4 to 1, to back the professor, saying the institution lacks sufficient evidence to terminate him and has failed to afford him due process in its proceedings. In a letter quoted in the Idaho State Journal, panel members wrote to the university's president: "After years of satisfactory evaluations, the short interval to termination without the opportunity for remediation was troubling to the majority, particularly in light of the fact that the recommendation to terminate was based on a claimed long-term pattern of behavior."
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1. willynilly - October 26, 2009 at 09:59 am
Is the faculty at ISU unionized? If yes, and it's either AAUP or AFT, then the faculty is obligated to back one of its members, no matter how embarrasing that backing might be to the overall reputation to the entire faculty.
2. happycamper1212 - January 04, 2010 at 11:54 am
Idaho State University is not unionized. The faculty here is too scared of the administration to ever suggest there that they need a union. The administration would like to move its unique view of tenure: "you have tenure until you say something we don't like," out on this entire nation. Read provost Gary Olson's recent editorials in The Chronicle advocating for such and the comments of readers who understand what that means.
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