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("drown the bunnies") The Latest: Faculty Asks University's President to Resign [View all]
Source: Associated Press
The Latest: Faculty Asks University's President to Resign
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feb 12, 2016, 7:31 PM ET
The Latest on the turmoil at Mount St. Mary's University after an uproar over the president's plan to identify freshmen most likely to fail and offer them tuition refunds:
7:20 p.m.
Faculty members of Mount St. Mary's University have voted overwhelmingly to ask the school's president to resign by Monday morning.
They announced the 87-to-3 vote Friday evening despite President Simon Newman's afternoon announcement that he was reinstating two faculty members he had fired amid an uproar over his plan to identify freshmen most likely to fail and offer them tuition refunds.
The faculty members were fired and the school's provost was demoted after a Board of Trustees investigation into the student newspaper's report that Newman had likened struggling freshman to baby rabbits that should be killed.
The letter to Newman says the negative public attention has interfered with their ability to continue in their work and to attract new students and teachers.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feb 12, 2016, 7:31 PM ET
The Latest on the turmoil at Mount St. Mary's University after an uproar over the president's plan to identify freshmen most likely to fail and offer them tuition refunds:
7:20 p.m.
Faculty members of Mount St. Mary's University have voted overwhelmingly to ask the school's president to resign by Monday morning.
They announced the 87-to-3 vote Friday evening despite President Simon Newman's afternoon announcement that he was reinstating two faculty members he had fired amid an uproar over his plan to identify freshmen most likely to fail and offer them tuition refunds.
The faculty members were fired and the school's provost was demoted after a Board of Trustees investigation into the student newspaper's report that Newman had likened struggling freshman to baby rabbits that should be killed.
The letter to Newman says the negative public attention has interfered with their ability to continue in their work and to attract new students and teachers.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-faculty-asks-universitys-president-resign-36907860
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