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On Dec. 10, Dr. Noell Wilson abruptly recommended to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Lee M. Cohen, that history professor Dr. Garrett Felber, “receive a one-year notice of nonrenewal pursuant to the University of Mississippi’s Termination of Untenured Faculty policy.” Wilson, Chair of the History Department at UM, did not discuss the termination with any other faculty members.
The termination shocked the department’s faculty, graduate students some of whom worked very closely with Felber and the university. The unprecedented action is the most recent example of the university’s suppression of progressive professors and challenges to UM’s authority and racist donors.