Near the end of Tuesday’s faculty meeting, a Lafayette professor announced that he had been on hunger strike since the meeting began at 4:10 p.m. and would not end until his demands are met.
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A Lafayette assistant professor announced today that he is going on a hunger strike to protest President Alison Byerly’s...
The president and the promotion and tenure review committee (PTR) will now work directly together when evaluating tenure cases of professors, instead of the president making a recommendation after receiving...
As classes wind down at the end of the semester, Spanish professor Juan Rojo faces the end of his career at Lafayette College.
At the beginning of the academic year, he attempted to push the college to...
Over the course of next semester, a faculty committee has been charged with reviewing the president’s involvement in the tenure process after national controversy over a tenure denial earlier this semester.
The...
Professor Juan Rojo walked to the president’s office after class on Tuesday afternoon. An email told him there was a letter waiting for him from the board of trustees.
Exactly three weeks before, he...
The board of trustees announced Tuesday afternoon that they will uphold their previous decision to deny professor Juan Rojo tenure.
After he got out of classes, Rojo picked up a two-paragraph letter...
Faculty voted overwhelmingly to urge the board of trustees to uphold the tenure review committee’s recommendation to grant professor Juan Rojo tenure in a special faculty meeting Tuesday, several sources...
Spanish Professor Juan Rojo announced to the board of trustees Saturday that he plans to suspend his hunger strike Monday at 10 a.m. Faculty were notified Sunday morning.
Rojo has only consumed water...
A Lafayette assistant professor announced on Tuesday afternoon that he would be going on hunger strike to protest the president's decision to deny his tenure application.
From the time Juan Rojo announced...
In the wake of the controversial tenure denial earlier this semester, a faculty delegation plans to meet Wednesday with the board of trustees to discuss issues primarily related to faculty governance,...
President Alison Byerly and Spanish Professor Juan Rojo met face-to-face for the first time on Thursday night regarding Rojo’s hunger strike in response to the denial of his tenure application.
A faculty...
