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KNOWLES v. UNITY COLLEGE

429 A.2d 220 (1981)

Kermit KNOWLES v. UNITY COLLEGE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided May 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Jabar (orally), John P. Jabar, Daviau, Jabar & Batten, Waterville, for plaintiff.

Alton C. Stevens (orally), Marden, Dubord, Bernier & Chandler, Waterville, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ.

ROBERTS, Justice.

In order to relieve financial pressures resulting from escalating costs and declining enrollments, many colleges have resorted to the drastic remedy of dismissing tenured professors or even eliminating tenure entirely. Unity College, a small private college in Unity, Maine, financially strained since it opened in the 1960s, followed this second route by canceling its tenure policy in 1971. The plaintiff...

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