The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a college had no right to fire an adjunct professor for protesting her college’s employment practices. The court found that the professor had a First Amendment stake in expressing her views about the poor pay and lack of job security for adjuncts, matters of public concern. (Inside Higher Education, October 31, 2014, by Colleen Flaherty)
In her capacity as president of the adjunct professor association, Robin Meade sent a letter to the college and was fired two days later. The college claimed the firing was legal since the only matter of public concern was student performance, an issue Meade addressed only briefly in the letter. (Find Law, November 3, 2014, by Mark Wilson, Esq.)