LA Times Discloses ID of Tenured UC Tenured Faculty Member Regents May Fire

Perhaps firing a tenured faculty member is not quite asexplosive as the atomic test the Regents in the photo on the left are showngetting ready to attend (1956). Nonetheless, such firings are unusual. One suspects that there are other such cases that lead to resignationsettlements that are not widely reported.

From the LA Times today:

The University ofCalifornia Board of Regents is scheduled this week to discuss a highly unusualproposal to fire a veteran tenured professor and deny him the perks of emeritusretirement.  The case involves a UCRiverside international finance professor who has been in lengthy courtdisputes over UC allegations that he improperly received outside income duringsabbaticals.  Because of confidentialityrules covering personnel actions, the regents' agenda item mentions only anunnamed UC Riverside professor; it does not give a reason for the possiblediscipline. University officials refuse to release those details, saying thatwould violate privacy rules. However, Sarkis Joseph Khoury and one of hisattorneys confirm that he is the professor in question and contend that theregents' discussion is the result of his long-term disagreements over hissabbaticals; his Republican political views and Lebanese heritage; and hisadvocacy for hiring minority professors, among other matters…

In roughly the lasttwo decades, regents have dismissed half a dozen tenured faculty members forvarious reasons, UC system spokesman Steve Montiel said…

Full story by reporter Larry Gordon is at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-prof-20120116,0,5155277.story

An earlier post on this blog reproduced the Regents’upcoming agenda.  The specific item aboveis at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan12/edpolx.pdf