Remark Costs Instructor a Job

by E Wayne Ross on April 23, 2007

Inside Higher Ed: Remark Costs Instructor a Job

# Ozarks Technical Community College, in Missouri, fired a part-time instructor of a geography course last week after several students said that he started class on Wednesday by banging a briefcase on a desk and saying “I am a suicide bomber.” The college said that the instructor never had weapons or bombs and no students were in danger. The name of the instructor cannot be released, according to college officials, because of the incident is a personnel matter. A spokesman for the college said that the dismissal would have taken place even without last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech.