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Angeline

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Posted April 30, 2004 1:59 PM.

USM settlement released





Details of the settlement between the University of Southern Mississippi and professors Gary Stringer and Frank Glamser include:

- The university will recommend Angie Dvorak, vice president of research and economic development, will not pursue litigation against the professors.

- The university will withdraw its termination proceedings against the professors.

- The professors will be reinstated for two years. During those two years the professors can convert to consultants if they want.

- The university will support Stringer’s research project and will not oppose a request if he transfers the project to another institution.

- The professors agree the university will not provide office facilities or supplies on campus.

- The professors will not publicly criticize the administration.

- The professors will be allowed to remove their personal material from their campus offices.

- The professors will be compensated at their current nine-month salaries. At the end of the 2005-2006 school year, any obligations of employment will have been satisfied.


 


 



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Here is the most important part:


- The university will withdraw its termination proceedings against the professors.


This is a victory for the professors and a loss for Shelby, because this is what the whole hearing was about!  We can term this as a victory.


 



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what legal claim does dvorak have?? and why was it the first item in settlement??

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grateful

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Could someone please explain the stipulations about the offices?

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Robert Campbell

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No doubt Thames is unhappy that he couldn't fire
Glamser and Stringer.

And Klumb is unhappy for him.

But if the best you can get, for showing that an administrator has lied on her vita and is unqualified to do a significant part of her job, is an agreement that she won't sue you if you don't criticize her any more, that isn't good enough.

There's still an impasse, folks: both the USM Faculty Senate and the Graduate Council have taken the position that Dvorak should no longer be involved in tenure and promotion decisions.

What's to prevent Shelby Thames from unblocking that impasse by taking punitive action against every member of both bodies who voted against Dvorak? Perhaps he can no longer count on having the go-ahead to fire them, but even that isn't clear.

Those faculty members who remain at USM would seem to me to have three choices:

* Get a job elsewhere, as soon as possible

* Resign yourself to working in a hellhole

or

* Do your part to ensure that Shelby Thames is removed from office

And, yes, cc'ing every email from an on-campus computer, not only to Thames, but to his top cronies, should become a standard practice until he retires or is ousted.

Robert Campbell



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