For those interested in local Murray News:
An article in the Murray State News on Thursday
last compares the moves against President Curris in the eighties and the current
nonrenewal of President Dunn's contract.
The following comment was appended:
While there are some similarities in the
cases of Presidents Curris and Dunn there is a very large difference that the
author of this article passes over lightly and there is a timeline question
about the actions against Dr. Curris.
The current action by the board is one of not extending Dunn’s contract
beyond its current end which I believe is on June 30, 2014. However, there were two occasions on which
the board moved to end Curris’s time as president. If the second one (in 1982) were the only
attempt, then that case would, as you have suggested, be similar to this one
because the board decided to replace Curris at the end of his contract on June
30, 1983.
However, in this article, there seems to be some confusion between the
second move against Curris (1982) with the first, which occurred in February of
1981. It was on that first occasion
that the charges were brought and the courts became involved. In the 1981 action, the board was not simply
trying to let a contract run out. Their
objective was to break Curris’s contract, which had almost 2 ½ years remaining,
and remove him immediately. That is
quite a different thing than letting a contract run out. That is why the action required charges and
that is why it resulted in such a huge fight. Curris won that stage of
the fight.
Sincerely,
Wayne C. Bell, Faculty
Senate President, 1982-83
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