From Inside Higher Ed
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/05/18/professor-says-she-was-fired-over-well-intentioned-ill-received-class-discussion?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=48c99b13b2-DNU20160518&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-48c99b13b2-198611657
Andrea Quenette, the University of Kansas professor of communication who used a racial slur during an ill-received class discussion about race, says she was not reappointed to her tenure-track position.
Technically, Quenette wasn’t granted an extension to her third-year review as part of her pretenure probation. But she and her husband say the decision was based less on her research schedule than on the recent controversy.
“The certified letter came today effectively canceling Andrea's contract,” her husband, Scott Quenette, wrote this week on a website through which he’s been raising funds for Andrea Quenette’s possible legal defense. “Despite recommendations from her department and the tenure review committee that she be given an extra year, the new dean unilaterally denied it and she's done.”
Scott Quenette added, “Please share this story, as [Kansas] wants to keep it quiet so nobody sees what they did.”
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