UGA Sacks Professor for Lying About Sex-Crime Conviction

The University of Georgia is firing a tenured education professor for not disclosing that he served a three-year Alabama prison sentence for committing sex crimes, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Cecil Fore III, an associate professor of communication science and special education, was convicted in 1991 of sexually molesting three students in Montgomery junior-high schools where he was a teacher, according to records in a related civil suit in U.S. district court, the newspaper reports. According to the Athens Banner-Herald, the university received a tip about Fore’s conviction earlier this week. UGA started running full background checks on new employees and those up for promotion this year, but that policy was not in place when Fore was hired in 2001.