Blindsided by Layoffs - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed

Laying off faculty should be the last course of action for struggling institutions, and professors should play a role in determining whether those layoffs are necessary -- and, if so, how those layoffs happen, according to recommended and common shared governance practices. But faculty members at two institutions that have terminated otherwise well-performing professors in recent weeks say they’re still in the dark as to how those decisions were made, and whether they were really necessary. Both institutions are private, and so faculty members lack the access to open records or required open meetings requirements of public institutions. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/18/faculty-members-struggling-colleges-say-they-were-blindsided-cuts