Clearer Policies for Firing Professors at Nebraska

By Colleen Flaherty. The Faculty Senate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln last week approved clarifications to the process by which professors may be dismissed, the Lincoln Journal-Star reported. The changes stem from the controversial 2017 dismissal of Courtney Lawton, a graduate student and lecturer in English who was filmed protesting and flipping off a member of the campus chapter of the political group Turning Point USA. More...