Sally Dear, an adjunct professor at Binghamton, recently received an email from an administrator there. SUNY was firing her because of a “strategic reprioritization of resources across the university.”
Now they’ve hired her back.
Binghamton … reversed the firing of Sally Dear, the adjunct lecturer who taught human development for 11 years before being dismissed earlier this week. Dear believed she was dismissed because she spoke out against the basketball program. The university had cited fiscal reasons. But Dear received a letter Friday saying she would remain an adjunct, although in a different department, during the audit.
“How come they’re firing me due to budget cuts and a reconfiguring of the department and all of a sudden I’m being hired by another department?” Dear said.
Easy answer to that question if you understand the inner workings of university administrations.
SUNY’s engaging in what’s known as “Reverse Rereprioritization,” in which formerly reprioritized priorities are reversed, resulting in rereprioritization.