UPEI to pay profs forced to retire
The University of Prince Edward Island will be forced to compensate three professors who were forced to retire after they turned 65, reported the Guardian.
The P.E.I. Human Rights Commission ruled in favour of Barry Bartmann, Ronald Collins and Robert O’Rourke, ordering the university to pay over $335,000 to the professors for lost income and professional development credits between 2007 and 2010.
The three professors were all reinstated last year, though only Bartmann continues to teach at the university.
This marks the second ruling the P.E.I. Humans Rights Commission has made in regards to the university’s forced retirement policy; another ruling asked for the university to pay three other employees close to $700,000.
The university’s mandatory retirement policy has since been dropped.
Yale slapped with civil suit over student death
Yale University is facing a civil suit over the death of Yale graduate student Anne Le, who was slain by a university employee, according to USA Today.
Le was strangled to death in September 2009 by lab technician Raymond Clark, who worked in the same lab where Le performed experiments for course work.
The suit, filed in Connecticut Superior Court on behalf of Le’s estate, alleges Yale representatives created “a culture of tolerance that allowed and encouraged aggressive male behavior toward students.”
The suit goes on to accuse the university of taking “inadequate steps to insure the safety and security of women on its campus.”
Yale has stated there is “no basis” for legal action and that “no reasonable security measures could have prevented this unforeseeable act.”
Code of conduct instituted at STU in wake of student death
In response to the death of Andrew Barlett, who died last October after attending a rookie volleyball party, St. Thomas University, in Fredericton N.B., has introduced a code of conduct applying to students on and off campus, reported CBC News.
The university’s volleyball team had been suspended for the remainder of the year following Barlett’s death, by then-university president Dennis Cochrane. Cochrane had also called for an internal review of the events leading up to Barlett’s death.
A spokesperson for the university explained a committee had been formed to address complaints of student activities as part of the new code of conduct.
“If [the students] are involved in something that involves the police or interferes with others, the rights of others, that’s certainly something we will sit down and look at,” Jeffrey Carleton, director of communications for St. Thomas University, told CBC News.
Carleton said the new code of conduct “lays those out clearly what our expectations are for student conduct on and off-campus.”
Punishments for violating the new code of conduct range from reprimand to expulsion.
