Revocation of tenure remains rare at Yale

BY JULIE POST
Staff Reporter
Yale Daily News
Published Friday, January 14, 2005

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articlefunctions/Printerfriendly.asp?AID=27779

"The resignation of Yale School of Management professor Antonio Lopez-de-Silanes due to alleged financial mismanagement underscored the rarity of a tenured professor losing a post that often ensures academics job security through retirement.

"The University's discovery that Lopez-de-Silanes allegedly had double-billed Yale about $150,000 as the director of the SOM's International Institute for Global Governance forced the esteemed professor to give up his tenured professorship -- an infrequent occurence at universities because of the seeming invincibility of tenure.

"A recent case involving the misappropriation of funds by former Berkeley Divinity School Dean R. William Franklin in 2001, who allegedly used tens of thousands of dollars to pay for his daughter's Harvard Medical School education, resulted in Franklin's resignation in December 2001 and the firing of two other administrators.

"More recently, the 1998 arrest and subsequent conviction of geology professor and former Saybrook College Master Antonio Lasaga for sexually assaulting a minor and possessing child pornography led the University to fire Lasaga.

The whole area of faculty malfeasance and the University response is wrapped in blankets of confidentiality, [Yale historian and professor emeritus Gaddis] Smith said."

Does this all hold for UTEP, too? You bet! But for how much longer?

Dennis