Interesting debate going on over at the Indiana University School of Law in Indanapolis.
Lots of discussion about
this article.
Gist is that an assistant professor who recently was recently approved by the faculty to associate professor after three years of teaching was denied contract extension. He says that it's becauase he is pro-war and refused to sign a letter of support for Ward Churchill.
There's a fauclty member in the comments at
Volokh who denies the allegation but doesn't really go further into reasons that the contract wasn't extended. More discussion from current students
here,
here and
here.
It seems that everyone agrees that the article was poorly written. The article suggests that he sought tenure, when he's not eligible for tenure for three more years.
Other than that, go read the Volokh discussion. I think it's interesting.
