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Peer reviewedGoldberg, Mark – Educational Leadership, 1994
Although South Bronx Superintendent Felton "Buddy" Johnson has cut student failure rates, budgets, and teachers' resistance to change, his school board has terminated his contract. Known as an activist administrator who refused to cut deals with a historically corrupt school board, Johnson has substantially retrained teachers and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Board Administrator Relationship, Dismissal (Personnel), Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWiegand, Wayne A. – Library and Information Science Research, An International Journal, 1983
Recounts events that led to the firing of Mary L. Jones, Director of Los Angeles Public Library (1905) and caught in public crossfire such figures as the mayor, city council, library board of directors, Charles Lummis (Jones's replacement), Susan B. Anthony, Anna Shaw, Herbert Putnam, and Melvil Dewey. (29 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Administrators, Dismissal (Personnel), Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Peer reviewedLarson, Olaf F.; Williams, Robin M., Jr.; Wimberley, Ronald C. – Rural Sociology, 1999
Examines the dismissal in 1931 of distinguished sociologist Carl C. Taylor after 11 years as an influential faculty member and dean at the State College of Agriculture and Engineering of North Carolina. Reviews the subsequent investigation by the American Association of University Professors. Highlights Taylor's career and contributions at…
Descriptors: Dismissal (Personnel), Educational History, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMetzger, Walter P. – Academe, 1986
The role of the American Association of University Professors leadership during 1949-1955 is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administration, Civil Liberties, College Faculty
Seib, Kenneth A. – 1979
An account of the upheavals that have taken place at Fresno State College since the mid-60s are discussed by a professor who witnessed the course of events. Troubled with the same tensions and polarities of other campuses across the country due to such factors as the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war, Fresno State fell victim to its…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Characteristics, Campuses, Case Studies
