Robert Frumkin v. Board of Trustees, Kent State University

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This case is a result of plaintiff-appellant Robert Frumkin’s dismissal from the faculty of Kent State University on July 17, 1975. Dr. Frumkin was a tenured Associate Professor of Special Education in a program funded by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. By letter of March, 1973, the Dean of the College of Education informed Frumkin that a possible loss of federal funding would result in termination of Frumkin’s employment.

Funding for the program was in fact curtailed; consequently, the College of Education was forced to reduce…