At least we know what a UNH professor has to do to get fired. “Last December I had what I can only say was an emotional breakdown and I did a terrible thing,” (Marco) Dorfsman said in an email sent to colleagues on April 19, 2013. “I lost my judgment and in a moment of great stress I tampered with a colleague’s student evaluations.”
The University of New Hampshire invoked moral turpitude and fired the lout. But one does not simply fire a UNH professor.
The Professors Union (UNH Local) stepped in, not to affirm the defense of Emile Taplin, the professor who had almost lost her job and visa and been deported, but to protect the slimy bigot who tried to get the French lady booted out of the country. Sure, he was out of line, but termination? Yes, termination, AND this is going on his permanent record. He’ll be lucky to find a job anywhere but the Hillary campaign, the Obama administration, the NH AG’s office, the network news stations, CNN, MSNBC, at a ‘fact checking’ web site, or replacing Harrell Kirstein as Ray Buckley’s ‘Towel Boy’ when they are done with Dorfsman.
And so it was. The courts actually got something right, twice. A lower court upheld the termination and the State Supreme Court upheld the lower court ruling. Tampering with a colleague’s student evaluations can get you fired from UNH.
Concord Monitor | New Hampshire’s highest court said Wednesday that an arbitrator went too far when he said the University of New Hampshire couldn’t fire a professor who changed student evaluations given to a lecturer.
And isn’t it good to see your tax-dollars at work? Forget roads and bridges, mental health, or that heroin epidemic we keep hearing about. Thanks to the Professors Union (UNH Local) buckets of forced tithing to the state government just helped march this puppy all the way up the ladder of justice so some well-paid un-elected lawyers could confirm that trying to get your colleague fired is an offense too far–a point I put in context back in March,
“So the moral of the story is that there is none. If you are a UNH language professor and you drop the scores of another language teacher you may eventually get fired for moral turpitude– “conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals.” But if you drop your pants in a Market Basket parking lot in front of a 17 year old girl and her mom you get paid leave, three years paid probation, and your teaching job back.”
Bread and circuses.
H/T Susan Olsen
