Thursday, December 30, 2010

Will ‘Sanity Prevail’ at Texas A&M Systems ?

http://www.foift.org/?p=1388

By now you've probably heard about the nutty public information policy being imposed on the faculty within Texas A&M's University System.  It's a policy that basically puts professors on notice, such as Dan Malone at Tarleton State University, that they can be fired for teaching, or directing,  journalism students how to use the Texas Public Information Act to find out information about their own alma mater.  Investigating UT is okay but don't look in your own backyard.  What?  Yeah, I told you it was nutty.  And, as we enter 2011 there is not only growing criticism being voiced across the nation – but also encouraging signs A&M is listening.