Ole Miss is running live feed of the on-campus public interviews with Dr. Dan Jones, the candidate for chancellor.
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I remember that pharmacology professor Robert Speth’s lawsuit against the University of Miss. settled, but no one could talk about the details until the settlement was approved by the IHL at their next meeting. That was months ago. Does anyone have information of that settlement?
Whoever becomes the next Chancellor of Ole Miss will find difficult ‘sledding’ with the new committee leadership of the ‘College Board.’
Count on that person encountering MAJOR headaches and budget cuts. MAJOR may prove to be an understatement.
FLY: Budget problems we know about. This is Mississippi … it will invent ways to deny proper funding for higher ed. So what if anything do you know that will produce other problems arising from the Board?
NoMiss @236. This what you’re looking for? http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/board/downloads/BDapril09.pdf
Pg 17-18
Below is the article from the March 24,2009 Daily Mississippian. Note that Barbara Lago, university media and public relations director, states that the details of the settlement will be available after the IHL meets and approves the agreement. According the Razor’s reference above, the IHL has met and approved the settlement. So what are the details?
By Tim Summers
Assistant News Editor
Details remain vague concerning the settlement of a lawsuit between the University of Mississippi and former professor Robert C. Speth.
According to court documents, the settlement conference was held March 20 in the chambers of Judge S. Allan Alexander. The docket entry states, “Conference held. Case settled.”
On March 23, the following Monday, court records report that Judge Sharion Aycock dismissed the case.
The terms of the agreement are not made clear in any court documentation available, and the participants contacted did not wish to comment until the mid-April Institutions of Higher Learning board meeting, where the agreement made on March 20 will have to be approved.
Barbara Lago, director of media and public relations at the university, also said the details will be made available when the Institutions of Higher Learning board meets and comes to an agreement.
The attorneys listed as attending the meeting with Judge Alexander are Christian Goeldner of Southhaven for the plaintiff and J. Cal Mayo, Jr., and Larry Tyner, Jr., of Oxford for the defendants, a list that includes the University of Mississippi itself and many of its employees.
Mayo commented on the settlement and why he must remain silent about it until the meeting.
“Until the board acts, we just can’t comment one way or another,” he said Tuesday afternoon by phone.
The Speth lawsuit concerned the management of a research grant in the pharmacology department when Robert Speth was the chair.
The complaint, written and submitted by Speth’s representatives explained the lawsuit. The $11-million grant required that the participant take an ethics course called “Responsible Conduct of Research” taught by Speth.
The then-chair of the department brought the alleged negligence and violation of this condition to the attention of authorities at the university.
His complaint then states that the university through the individual defendants, “reacted by denying any misuses of funds, by failing to stop the misuse, by covering up the misuse and by engaging in a series of retaliatory acts against plaintiff designed to humiliate him, to make life miserable for him, to punish him for his actions and to set him up for termination.”
The IHL’s next meeting is April 16.