News story, WVLA Channel 33 - National advocacy group gets behind LSU instructors; Says LSU should extend contracts through end of school year (11/5)
Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education - AAUP Protests Louisiana State U.'s Plan to Lay Off 14 Language Instructors (11/2)
Article in the Advocate (picked up by the Associated Press) - National faculty group criticizes LSU layoffs (11/2)
Article in the Daily Reveille - AAUP wants University to reinstate instructors (11/4)
Have the Foreign language 14 attempted to get legal counsel for this situation? I don't understand how this could be legal.
ReplyDeleteThe University assures us that their lawyers approved all procedures and criteria used to fire the foreign language instructors. We have been told by a very well-respected local lawyer that we would not be able to recover what we would have to spend on a lawsuit. We have also been told by a faculty group on campus: "The University has acted immorally and unethically, and totally within the law."
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