{"id":6691,"date":"2023-11-14T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/former-san-antonio-professor-says-he-was-fired-over-newspaper-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:09:26","slug":"former-san-antonio-professor-says-he-was-fired-over-newspaper-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/former-san-antonio-professor-says-he-was-fired-over-newspaper-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Former San Antonio professor says he was fired over newspaper op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         A former University of Texas at San Antonio professor has sued school officials in federal court,\u00a0alleging he was fired in 2021 for publishing an Express-News op-ed critical of his department&#8217;s credit requirements. UTSA disputes that claim, however, arguing in a court filing that Bruce Smith, a tenured professor in the school&#8217;s engineering program, was terminated over poor performance and a failure to meet requirements laid out in a performance-improvement plan, or PIP. The university also\u00a0began discussions about removing Smith months before the op-ed was published, officials allege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former University of Texas at San Antonio professor has sued school officials in federal court,\u00a0alleging he was fired in 2021 for publishing an Express-News op-ed critical of his department&#8217;s credit requirements. UTSA disputes that claim, however, arguing in a court filing that Bruce Smith, a tenured professor in the school&#8217;s engineering program, was terminated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}