The Chronicle News Blog: Dispute Over Faculty Adviser to Student Newspaper Earns Censure for University
An advocacy group for faculty advisers to student newspapers has censured Oklahoma Baptist University for its decision, in 2005, to not renew the contract of Philip Todd, the adviser to its student paper. The group, College Media Advisers, said in a written statement that Mr. Todd had been dismissed because he refused to follow the orders of the university’s president and other officials who asked him to review the paper before publication, provide them with advance word of articles the paper planned to cover, and include or exclude certain topics from coverage. The group said those demands violated the students’ free-speech rights, the faculty adviser’s job description, and the university’s written policies.
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