New England College Settles Lawsuit Over Poetry Program

New England College has agreed to settle a lawsuit in which it accused the former director of its graduate poetry program of secretly re-creating the program at Drew University while still employed at New England, and luring faculty members and students away, the Associated Press reported. A lawyer for New England College, in Henniker, N.H., declined to comment on the terms of the agreement. The lawsuit had sought compensation for lost tuition and the $33,000 salary it paid the former director in her last year at New England.