Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ebert became dean of the Medical School one year after his arrival, and succeeded with programs at Harvard where he had been frustrated at Case Western Reserve University. Ebert, who will resign the deanship in July 1977, fulfills a certain Harvard myth: Harvard as an academic mecca...
After the appointment, 700 of Austin's 1,700 faculty members attended an emergency meeting; they overwhelmingly approved a motion asking Lorene Rogers to resign and protesting that a person "found wanting" by the student-faculty committee "should not be thrust upon it." The Austin chapter of the American Association of University Professors called the appointment "a profoundly ill-considered, arbitrary and ugly action." The faculty senate voted not to participate in any university council meetings while Rogers is in office...
...Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran, is more skeptical about the possibilities for a politically unencumbered university. She says that having Westerners on the Board of Governors will not be enough to ensure academic freedom. "If one of the western administrators complains about political repression and says he'll resign unless something is done, the Iranian Government will say, so what...
...still the majority party of the working class, torn by tensions ignored in the American press between radicals faithful to the party's Marxist program and conservatives. The party's rightward tilt is unmistakable, exemplified by its July decision to resign from the Goncalves cabinet over workers' seizures of Republica, the party's newspaper, and Renascenza, the Church's radio station. While the PSP and the liberal press characterized the seizures as Communist plots to suppress "free speech", few involved workers--only two at Republica--were Communist Party (PCP) members...
...night meetings, military feints, rumors of a coup or even a civil war -nothing seemed able to stir Portugal from its state of near-paralysis. For most of last week, as overwhelming majorities of the military and the public called for him to resign, pro-Communist Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves hung on, issuing dark warnings that if he were ousted, the Communist Party's armed militia would swing into action...