A Presidential Critic, Fired at Stillman College

by E Wayne Ross on April 10, 2009

Inside Higher Ed: A Presidential Critic, Fired

After a career of 27 years teaching business at Stillman College, and despite holding a tenured position, Ekow O. Hayford was fired last year, in violation of his academic freedom, according to a report being issued today by the American Association of University Professors. The report found that Hayford was fired without due process after he publicly criticized the president of the college, a historically black institution in Alabama.