Professor Fired For Using Macintosh Computers
Jan 2nd, 2006
Karen L. Bosley was recently fired from her position as faculty advisor, a decision that enraged both students and fellow teachers at Ocean County College. In perhaps the strangest reason ever cited for an employee firing, board members named Bosley's use of Macintosh computers .
From the Asbury Park Press:
Despite impassioned pleas from her supporters, the Ocean County College board of trustees voted unanimously Monday not to reappoint Karen L. Bosley as faculty adviser to the student newspaper, a post she has held for 35 years.
Kanouse and other teachers and students charged that Bosley's termination at the Viking News was in response to the newspaper's periodic criticism of college President Jon H. Larson and his administration's policies. The administration flatly denied the accusation.
abOUT 20 teachers, students and other supporters of Bosley and the three other teachers crowded into the second-floor boardroom of the school's Administration Building to protest the administration's recommendations, and the board meeting lasted nearly three hours. Several of them charged that the three teachers – Karen Veselits of the English Department; Patrick Mitchell, Mathematics; and Cathy Hoult, Social Sciences – also were being let go, not because of lack of merit, but because they had run afoul of the administration.
Bosley rebutted the two reasons she was given for not being renewed as newspaper adviser – that the paper contains too many errors and that student staff, because they use Macintosh computers, are not being prepared for the real world.I wonder what Apple would say about this?
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