Update 2/26/13: This morning, Inside Higher Education (a national trade publication) featured Gene’s story — more evidence that an angry groundswell cannot be silenced. In the interest of transparency, I cooperated with the reporter — something I hope every faculty member in a School of Journalism would do.
The story, titled Succeed and Lose Your Job, is damaging to Kent State, but it provides an important lesson about listening to one’s stakeholders. We teach these sorts of case studies all the time in our classes. Now we’re one of them. More on that in a future post. Continue reading