Essentially, after offering Seattle University professor Jodi O'Brien a job as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University changed its mind and rescinded the offer, calling its initial decision to hire her "premature." The College has not had a Dean since 2007. Although the University is officially denying the offer was rescinded because Ms. O'Brien is a lesbian, it has become a controversy among professors and students, and throughout the community as a whole.
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Marquette University on Thursday abruptly rescinded an offer to a sociologist to serve as dean of one of its colleges, angering some students and faculty members who said the university did so after learning she was a lesbian who wrote about sexuality.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/ed...marquette.html
Local coverage:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/93012094.html
I'll be interested in watching this story unfold. The College of Arts and Sciences hasn't had a Dean since 2007, and yet MU is calling its decision to actually hire someone in 2010 "premature"? They offered her a job, and
then they read her academic work? Something isn't adding up and, in my opinion, the University seriously needs to get its act together.