Legal Opinion
Brenna v. Southern Colorado State College
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 13, 1978No. 77-1940PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
Appellant was a tenured professor at Southern Colorado State College. Because of bona fide budgetary exigencies it became necessary for the college to reduce its full time faculty from 340 to 308. Those staff cuts were allocated among the various departments by administrative decision with one cut allocated to appellant’s academic department. The head of the department was assigned responsibility to recommend which faculty member “his department would best get along without.” Record, vol. 2, at 64. Appellant was selected even though there was a nontenured faculty member…
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