Monday, January 08, 2007

Asbury Park Press: More fear, loathing at OCC

Bill Handleman of the Asbury Park Press has done it again. I wrote about this piece by Mr. Handleman back in October...and he has written another gem.
More fear, loathing at OCC
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/7/07

Quite by accident, two former professors from Ocean County College may have struck a blow for educational freedom in New Jersey.

Karen Veselits and Patrick Mitchell, who were fired by OCC in December 2005, took the college to court and won the right to know why they were dismissed. Imagine that. Before this decision was handed down by Superior Court Judge Eugene Serpentelli in October, non-tenured professors at two-year colleges in the state were never owed any explanation whatsoever.

This set a precedent. It was a big deal. In essence, it meant that autocratically inclined administrators could no longer fire untenured faculty members because they didn't like their looks.

Alas, news doesn't always travel so fast in Ocean County. Aside from the student newspaper, the Viking News, no one really jumped on this story. So, the latest signs of serious trouble at OCC went largely unnoticed.

Read the full story...

Once again...kudos to you, Bill Handleman!

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