The University of Alabama at Huntsville confirmed on Wednesday that it had fired Amy Bishop, the biology professor who is accused of killing three co-workers and injuring three others in a departmental meeting last month, The Decatur Daily reported. Previously, the university had said Ms. Bishop was suspended without pay. Ms. Bishop, who is in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on charges of capital murder and attempted murder, received the termination letter on February 26. Her firing was made retroactive to February 12, the day of the shooting.
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11 Responses to Huntsville Campus Fires Amy Bishop
11182967 - March 11, 2010 at 4:39 pm
And none too soon.
haohtt - March 11, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Word to prospective candidates for promotion & tenure: Shooting your colleagues is not a good strategy for career advancement.
drhypersonic - March 11, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Little bit like the Navy going on alert after Pearl Harbor…
newyorkyankees - March 11, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Why exactly was she still on the payroll???
rmelton5 - March 11, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Yankee, You’re not reading very carefully. She had been suspended WITHOUT pay.
raza_khan - March 11, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Foremost, I agree that she should have been fired. If she is the killer, she has absolutely no sympathies from me – for whatever reasons she took a life!However, I want to look from a legal perspective. Is not the legal system of the country is that you are presumed innocent until you are proven guilty.Since she had a contract, on what basis did the college fire her. Did they judge that she was the killer prior to the legal system did? Legally speaking, I do not believe that firing was deserved so early. Yes, she was already suspended and when her contract was up in May / June, it did not have to be extended. Morally, on the other hand, I see the firing makes sense. I always caution on the legal side here.Raza
octoprof - March 12, 2010 at 5:54 am
raza_khan, they could probably legally fire her on the basis of not showing up to work since February 12th, at the very least (never mind the shooting…). She hasn’t been available to teach her classes for a month because she’s incarcerated. If you didn’t show up for work for a month, you’d probably get fired, too (even without the violence she’s perpetrated).
gbpreuss - March 12, 2010 at 7:15 am
She was probably fired, among other obvious reasons, because she did not get tenure….which, if you will remember….was the reason she allegedly went on the shooting spree in the first place, allegedly.
willynilly - March 12, 2010 at 10:51 am
What in the world took so long? Were the trustees and the president preoccupied with matters more pressing than the murder of three of their faculty members?
mabeelrc - March 12, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Fired!!? Gosh that’s gotta hurt.
raza_khan - March 15, 2010 at 12:53 pm
octoprof, I agree with you. The basis of her firing has to be other than alleged criminal activity. The college can not fire any employee till the crime is proven guilty. If that is the case, any disgruntled employee can register a case against another eomployee in a court and thus cause for a lawful dismissal.Again, morally, it is a different issue of necessity of being fired. Raza