Hiring and Firing News

Madonna G. Constantine, a tenured professor, will be fired for plagiarism, according to an announcement by Columbia University’s Teachers College. A law firm hired by the university found she had committed more than two dozen instances of plagiarism, according to a report on The Chronicle‘s News Blog.
Two weeks after being appointed chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Parkside, Robert Felner has acknowledged that the college he oversees at the University of Louisville faces a criminal investigation, says a report on The Chronicle‘s News Blog.
Layoffs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that followed the federal government’s decision to switch the facility’s management contract last fall from the University of California system to a corporation-led consortium are affecting the quality of the science, according to a report in the Contra Costa Times.
Shirley Strum Kenny, the first female president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook announces plans to retire, The New York Daily News reports.