Dr. Deborah O'Connor, Ph.D.
Good riddance. Read it here.
postscript -- this "Business Communications Professor" with a Ph.D. wanted to "suppress" the story:
OUSTED FSU INSTRUCTOR ASKED SCHOOL OFFICIALS TO SUPPRESS OUR STORY
Deborah O’Connor resigned over the weekend after Folio Weekly began asking about racist and homophobic Facebook comments
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Posted 12/9/14
WCTV in Tallahassee has a story up tonight that basically regurgitates what Derek Kinner posted last night: Longtime Florida State instructor Deborah O’Connor resigned over the weekend after Folio Weekly began asking questions about a string of racist, homophobic Facebook comments she left on a friend-of-a-friend’s post about police shootings. (No link to us or mention of our intrinsic role in this thing, as journalistic convention would dictate is proper, but whatever.) The TV station did get one thing out of the university that they didn’t give us yesterday when we were putting our story together: O’Connor’s resignation letter, and a note she sent the dean before that. The interesting part:
In her resignation letter to the dean of the business school, O'Connor notes she has a Masters and Ph.D. from FSU and had taught there for 18 years.
She wrote her resignation was "...the path of least resistance", but "I do NOT believe the punishment fits the "crime"."
In her original note to the dean before her official resignation letter was submitted,O'Connor wrote in part, "Is there any chance the story can be suppressed to minimize further injury to my repuation? Thanks and Go Noles".
Nope.
They should have dumped her before or instead of "accepting" her resignation. Folio does it again.
ReplyDeleteAnd the next Flor-i-DUH university to employ her is...