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U of I academic leader says review of adjunct professor could serve entire campus well

By Alliance Alert

willam 580 Illinois Public Media: "A leading University of Illinois faculty member said it is good to see the Urbana campus initiating a process by which the contracts of faculty will be looked at before being renewed. The review process concerns adjunct faculty member Kenneth Howell . . . [who was] re-instated . . . after the Alliance Defense Fund threatened to sue the university . . . 'This faculty committee says "look, we have to have some procedures in place to make sure that no one is just dismissed,"' [ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence] said. 'Not because they?re a bad teacher, but because some people don?t agree with what he?s asserting in the classroom, and that would be a step forward for everybody.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).