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ISU faculty no-confidence vote goes against Provost Gary Olson

Posted on April 13, 2010 by | Comments Off on ISU faculty no-confidence vote goes against Provost Gary Olson

Idaho State Journal: ISU faculty no-confidence vote goes against Provost Gary Olson

POCATELLO — Nearly 70 percent of the faculty members who participated in an advisory vote on Idaho State University Provost Gary Olson have no confidence in him, according to vote results released by the ISU Faculty Senate Friday evening. Of the 431 faculty members who cast ballots this week, 295 expressed no confidence in Olson. Ninety-five faculty members have confidence in the provost while 41 voted to abstain.

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Faculty Speech Rights Rejected

Posted on December 23, 2009 by | Comments Off on Faculty Speech Rights Rejected

Inside Higher Ed: Faculty Speech Rights Rejected

A bitter dispute over a tenured professor fired by Idaho State University has become the latest case in which a court has suggested that faculty members at public colleges and universities do not have First Amendment protection when criticizing their administrations.

While the individual case of Habib Sadid continues to be much debated at the university, the way the judge ruled in the case has advocates for faculty members concerned.

The language in the decision “eviscerates the identity and role that a faculty member plays” in public higher education, said Rachel Levinson, senior counsel for the American Association of University Professors. The decision applies to a higher education context several court cases that the AAUP believes should not be applied to higher education, and one case involving higher education that the AAUP believes was wrongly decided because of reliance on the other cases. In many respects, the ruling in Sadid represents an extreme form of a legal pattern the AAUP recently warned was eroding faculty rights at public colleges.

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Idaho State U professor fired despite faculty vote

Posted on November 2, 2009 by | Comments Off on Idaho State U professor fired despite faculty vote

The Olympian: ISU professor fired despite faculty vote

POCATELLO, Idaho – An Idaho State University engineering professor who was suspended in August says he has been fired, despite backing from a faculty appeals board.

The Idaho State Journal reports Habib Sadid confirmed Friday that university president Arthur Vailas had terminated his employment.

In a statement, Vailas said his decision was in the best interests of the institution.

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Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member

Posted on October 26, 2009 by | Comments Off on Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member

Inside Higher Ed: Panel Says Not to Fire Idaho State Faculty Member

Idaho State University lacks sufficient evidence to justify the termination of a tenured professor charged with a pattern of abusive and disruptive behavior, a faculty panel ruled Friday. Habib Sadid, an engineering professor who has been at Idaho State for more than 20 years, was suspended and barred from campus in August. Sadid has challenged administrators publicly, and in 2005 he organized a no-confidence vote in the university’s former president, who later resigned amid protests about his compensation. The panel ruled 4:1 in favor of Sadid, and the lone vote against him came from a faculty member appointed to the panel by the university’s provost. In its ruling, the panel said due process had not been followed and they found “the absence of requried documentation disturbing.” The panel added, “After years of satisfactory evaluations, the short interval to termination without the opportunity for remediation was troubling to the majority, particularly in light of the fact that the recommendation to terminate was based on a claimed long-term pattern of behavior.” The panel’s findings are advisory, and the university’s president is still authorized to terminate Sadid, according to university rules.

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Idaho State U asks chair of physics department to resign

Posted on September 25, 2009 by | Comments Off on Idaho State U asks chair of physics department to resign

The Olympian: ISU asks chair of physics department to resign

BOISE, Idaho – The new chair of the Idaho State University physics department was asked to resign his post after allowing an Ecuadorian professor without proper visa papers to teach in the classroom, a school spokesman said.

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