Is Dan Jones this year's Teresa Sullivan?
On Friday, the state higher education board in Mississippi announced, without detail on why, that it would not renew the contract of Jones, who has been chancellor of the University of Mississippi since 2009. The news surprised Jones as well as faculty and student leaders at the university, where many think he has been highly successful -- on academic issues and finances. The next day, the board issued a new statement on the nonrenewal, which it attributed to Jones failing to make necessary changes in the university medical center, but that statement too lacked detail, and has not calmed the discussion.
And so all weekend, faculty members and students have been circulating articles about the 2012 ouster of Teresa Sullivan as president of the University of Virginia for vaguely stated reasons and against the wishes of faculty and student leaders. Under intense pressure, the Virginia board reversed itself.
And that's why petitions are circulating in Oxford, Miss., and online, why people are changing their Facebook photos to the image at right, why an emergency faculty meeting has been called for Tuesday and why a protest is planned for the campus on Wednesday.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/23/anger-over-state-boards-decision-not-renew-u-mississippi-chancellor