Collin College s Wiley campus.
The two long-time female professors say they were also dismissed because they re officers of the school s Texas Faculty Association chapter. The college said it respects the instructors privacy and cannot comment on personnel issues.
Two Collin College professors whose contracts are not being renewed say there were ousted by leaders who did not like their views surrounding the system’s COVID-19 policies. The news follows months of concerns from faculty over COVID-19.
The professors say they were fired, even if on paper, they were told their contracts would not be renewed in May. Audra Heaslip, who’s taught humanities at Collin College for more than a decade, was called into a meeting with some administrators.
Collin Community College s Wiley campus.
Following a surge in coronavirus cases, Collin College will cease in-person classes beginning Monday until after the new year.
And for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the college of 35,000 mostly-commuter students is also posting an online COVID-19 dashboard.
The college system will close all campuses to in-person classes. Scheduled courses will continue online-only, and students won’t return to class until Jan. 11, after the school’s winter semester ends.
The changes come after the deaths of a professor and student, who both contracted COVID-19, and after Collin College professors expressed concerns about the absence of a public dashboard, as well as how the college president has tried to downplay the impact of the coronavirus.