UC regents fire tenured Riverside professor
The University of California on Thursday fired a tenured full professor, a move so rare it has happened only a handful of times over the past 30 years, the professor in question said. The UC Board of Regents voted in a closed meeting to fire Sarkis Joseph Khoury, a finance professor at UC Riverside’s A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management… The university charges that Khoury improperly received income while on three, full-pay sabbaticals from UC Riverside. But Khoury says the funds he received were expense stipends and that he became a target after criticizing hiring practices that he saw as discriminatory, as well as other university policies.
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by Christina Hoag, The San Diego Union-Tribune.