Williams v. Florida Memorial College

This is an appeal and cross appeal from a final judgment in an action for breach of contract and back salary brought by an untenured assistant professor of music against Florida Memorial College. We have carefully examined the briefs of the parties together with the record on appeal and can discern no reversible error save in one respect. We accordingly affirm in part and reverse in part.

First, the trial court properly construed the faculty handbook to mean that the professor herein was not entitled, as urged, to a one-year notice of non-appointment before the college could terminate the…