Settlements This Week

The University of Dubuque will pay former professor Paul F. Jeffries $50,000 to settle a lawsuit over whether the university revoked his tenure and demoted him for complaining about contract provisions prohibiting him from criticizing the institution, Andrew Mytelka reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. According to the terms of the settlement, the university will pay Mr. Jeffries, but admit to no breach of contract. Read more.

Meanwhile, Ralph Slaughter, president of the Southern University system, will settle his whistle-blower suit against the system’s Board of Supervisors in return for a $10,000 raise and a $200,000 annual salary supplement for the next two years, which will up his salary to $420,000 a year, Paul Fain writes in The Chronicle.

Slaughter had filed suit in May against the Board of Supervisors, its chairman, Johnny G. Anderson, and Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, alleging that they were trying to terminate him for reporting sexual-harassment complaints from female university employees against Anderson, who is also a top aide of the governor’s, Fain writes.