{"id":2508,"date":"2007-06-04T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/mit-center-director-resigns-in-protest-of-tenure-decision\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T01:07:39","slug":"mit-center-director-resigns-in-protest-of-tenure-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/mit-center-director-resigns-in-protest-of-tenure-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT center director resigns in protest of tenure decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2007\/06\/04\/mit_center_director_resigns_in_protest_of_tenure_decision\/\">MIT center director resigns in protest of tenure decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and pharmaceutical researcher has resigned in protest over the case of James L. Sherley , an MIT colleague who held a 12-day hunger strike in February after he did not receive tenure, faculty members and school officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Frank L. Douglas , executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation , wrote in an e-mail obtained by the Globe that he will leave the university at the end of the month because of MIT&#8217;s refusal to reconsider its decision not to grant Sherley tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe: MIT center director resigns in protest of tenure decision A prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and pharmaceutical researcher has resigned in protest over the case of James L. Sherley , an MIT colleague who held a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/06\/mit-center-director-resigns-in-protest-of-tenure-decision\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}