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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.
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