The Fall of Embry-Riddle Part 2

After hearing more of the story from my anonymous source at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, it appears the situation is more troubling than I realized. Not only were professors retiring due to the tenure policy, it also appears the administration may have taken direct action against the student body. Per my source, "Immediately after the implementation of the post-tenure review policy, a well-known engineering faculty member’s tenure was denied, causing uproar among the engineering students." This seems to be correct, according to this contemporaneous article I found in the school newspaper. Following this, the faculty members at the Prescott campus "voted no confidence in both the Provost and the president of the university. That vote was sent to the other campus at Daytona Beach, where the President and Provost reside" according to my anonymous source. However, the day before graduation, the President promised to hear out the professors' complaints. However, according to my sources, "the Provost sat in the corner and the President told the teachers off for involving their students in the debate over post-tenure policy." My source was convinced that there was no way the University President had unintentionally misunderstood and told me that the President was most likely engaging in a malicious attempt to blame the professors for involving students, when it was the students who had organized and involved themselves. My source has always been a trustworthy source of information and told me they had been informed by others directly present at the meeting. I will report further on this story when more information becomes available to me.

Part 1; https://scheney90.wixsite.com/readingrhetorics2024/post/the-fall-of-emery-riddle-part-1

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