{"id":8422,"date":"2011-06-16T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2011-06-16T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:02:15","slug":"4-former-professors-sue-bethune-cookman-u-over-their-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/06\/4-former-professors-sue-bethune-cookman-u-over-their-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Former Professors Sue Bethune-Cookman U. Over Their Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Sentinel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/education\/os-bethune-cookman-professors-lawsuit20110615,0,7146869.story\">4 Former Professors Sue Bethune-Cookman U. Over Their Dismissal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four former professors are suing Bethune-Cookman University, claiming they were fired because they confronted the college president about a host of problems on campus, including embezzlement.<\/p>\n<p>They say university president Trudie Kibbe Reed didn&#8217;t want them to embarrass her or undermine her authority so she began a course of retaliation that ended with their dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, however, said the lawsuit is an effort to divert attention away from the real reason the men were let go in 2009 \u2014 allegations of sexual misconduct with students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Sentinel: 4 Former Professors Sue Bethune-Cookman U. Over Their Dismissal Four former professors are suing Bethune-Cookman University, claiming they were fired because they confronted the college president about a host of problems on campus, including embezzlement. They say university &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/06\/4-former-professors-sue-bethune-cookman-u-over-their-dismissal\/\">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":[211,2264],"tags":[3344,4224,1288952,2401],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-legal-issues","tag-aaup","tag-bethune-cookman-u","tag-legal-issues","tag-termination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","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=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}