Professor’s Dismissal for ‘Malicious Gossip’ Leads to AAUP Rebuke of Stillman College

by E Wayne Ross on April 10, 2009

The Chronicle: Professor’s Dismissal for ‘Malicious Gossip’ Leads to AAUP Rebuke of Stillman College

The American Association of University Professors says in a report being issued today that administrators at Stillman College, in Alabama, created a climate hostile to academic freedom and shared academic governance.

The private, historically black college’s president, Ernest McNealey, responded to the report Thursday with a written statement characterizing it as “a fictional account” based on foregone conclusions. He called the report the culmination of an effort to “intimidate and defame.”