Posted on 04/17/2013 8:22:16 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Brevard Community College has fired Professor Sharon Sweet who forced her students to sign this pledge:
Brevard Community College (BCC) has fired a professor after a school investigation concluded she required students to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the run-up to the 2012 election.
The schools spokesman John Glisch, said the Board of Trustees voted Wednesday morning to terminate mathematics professor Sharon Sweet with an overwhelming vote.
The board voted 3-1, with one member absent, to dismiss professor Sweet, Glisch told Campus Reform Wednesday afternoon.
The termination took effect immediately, ending pay and benefits for Sweet who had been suspended with pay under provisions of the United Faculty of Florida collective bargaining agreement with the college, pending the boards decision, the school added in a press release.
BCC was hurled into the national spotlight last year for Sweets actions after a Campus Reform exposé highlighted her alleged demand for students to support the Democratic Party in the 2012 elections.
The schools president later recommended to the Board of Trustees that professor Sweet should be fired, following an investigation that found her guilty of harassment, incompetence, misconduct, and unprofessional behavior.
Sweet was a tenured professor who had taught at the college five years. She earned $40,000 annually.
I thought that stuck out like a sore thumb too. I cannot imagine a tenured professor working for a whole year for a gross amount that after taxes would only pay for a low end new car with nothing left to buy gasoline. $3,333.33 monthly for a tenured professor? That ain’t squat.
Oh, now I see why she only had a $40,000. salary. It must have been $500. annually for each IQ point.
Very glad to see this "professor" (yeah, agree with above posters) was fired. We vacation in Brevard every Spring, although it's hard for us to get there (we drive from Ohio)...and we really enjoy the community there. This renews my faith in the "right stuff" - keep up the good work!!
Agree whole-heartedly. The trouble is with “tenure”, and school boards/trustees (even or maybe especially at the pre-college level) often don’t even try to remove “educators” like this woman, simply because of the cost of resulting lawsuits. There is always someone who can excuse the most egregious behavior as “really, no big deal”, just “creative education”...
You're right...too bad the "media" and other regular people don't understand these academic distinctions, because words do mean things!!
She may have acquired some sort of "tenure", and she may have impeccable academic credentials for teaching Math despite her other shortcomings, but in any case, a full-time professor would not make $40K per year.
Ms. Sweet is a "professor" just like Mr. Obama and Ms. Warren were/are "professors"...IOW, NOT!
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