From The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Banished For Blogging
A professor at Devry University in Westminster, Colorado, has been fired, she says, for some “water-cooler kvetching” about the institution on her blog.
Meg Spohn, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Denver, served as department chair of communications and composition at the Westminster campus until mid-December. On her Web site, Ms. Spohn had critiqued the university’s online training seminars and hiring practices — complaints, she argues, that were fairly antiseptic.
But campus officials evidently saw something a bit more sinister in her online musings. And Ms. Spohn may have a difficult time if she chooses to fight the firing: Colorado is an “at-will” state where companies are allowed to dismiss employees for any reasons not prohibited by federal law. (The Denver Post)
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