Post by ARod on May 4, 2005 9:20:56 GMT -5
PACKING IT IN
Florida International University journalism prof Kevin Hall is calling it quits -- after 20 years -- citing ``deep ethical and intellectual conflicts over this school's obligations to its students.''
Hall, 60, wrote an eight-page resignation letter to Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, 64, dean of FIU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Among his complaints: FIU eliminated English-language skills standards for journalism majors. Hall acknowledges he owns the company that produces ''Word One,'' a computerized grammar exam. The J-school charged students a test fee -- $15.
Rising to Hall's defense: J. Arthur Heise, the journalism school's founding dean emeritus. In a letter to The Beacon, FIU's student newspaper, Heise calls Hall the ''principal architect'' of the J-school's writing program. ''What he developed soon won high praise from top journalists from around the country,'' Heise writes. ``And now it has been destroyed.''
FIU's chief spokesman Mark Riordan calls Hall a ''well respected professor,'' but says ``we disagree with his assertion that there are any improprieties in the way the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is being run.''
Hall once worked for The Herald -- as executive editor of the former Sunday magazine Tropic. His last day at FIU, where he earned $72,280, is May 12.
Florida International University journalism prof Kevin Hall is calling it quits -- after 20 years -- citing ``deep ethical and intellectual conflicts over this school's obligations to its students.''
Hall, 60, wrote an eight-page resignation letter to Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, 64, dean of FIU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Among his complaints: FIU eliminated English-language skills standards for journalism majors. Hall acknowledges he owns the company that produces ''Word One,'' a computerized grammar exam. The J-school charged students a test fee -- $15.
Rising to Hall's defense: J. Arthur Heise, the journalism school's founding dean emeritus. In a letter to The Beacon, FIU's student newspaper, Heise calls Hall the ''principal architect'' of the J-school's writing program. ''What he developed soon won high praise from top journalists from around the country,'' Heise writes. ``And now it has been destroyed.''
FIU's chief spokesman Mark Riordan calls Hall a ''well respected professor,'' but says ``we disagree with his assertion that there are any improprieties in the way the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is being run.''
Hall once worked for The Herald -- as executive editor of the former Sunday magazine Tropic. His last day at FIU, where he earned $72,280, is May 12.
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