Vermont Law School Under Investigation After Axing Tenured Faculty Positions

Vermont Law School is under investigation by the American Association of University Professors after the school's mid-year "restructuring" of tenured professors jobs left some of them in either lower-paying posts or out in the cold.

The association said in a release that the actions of school administrators had "deviated from widely observed standards of academic decision making, including those mandated by the bylaws of the Association of American Law Schools" and had  "failed to consult with the faculty as a whole about its plan for involuntarily restructuring the faculty."