Inside Higher Ed has the scoop about an adjunct professor at SMU who may have been fired (or rather, “informed her services were no longer needed”) because of her warts-and-all blog, The Phantom Professor. An excerpt:
Rita Kirk, the department chairwoman, says that she received complaints about the blog from students and parents, and that she consulted with university lawyers about what to do about it. Kirk describes herself as a strong First Amendment supporter, but she says she worries that the blog violated students’ privacy rights and upset some students. “People need to remember that words can hurt,” Kirk says.
Hat tip: David Greenberg.
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