ZIMMERMAN v. APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY

No. CO00-1363.

560 S.E.2d 374 (2002)

Ward B. ZIMMERMAN, Petitioner, v. APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY; Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham, & Sumter, P.A. by John W. Gresham, Charlotte, for petitioner.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Joyce S. Rutledge, for the respondent.


BIGGS, Judge.

This appeal arises from a 1995 decision by administrators of Appalachian State University (ASU) not to offer a reappointment contract to Ward B. Zimmerman (petitioner), at that time a non-tenured faculty member. The trial court's order reversed the decision of the Board of Governors to leave undisturbed the earlier decisions by ASU's Chancellor and its Trustees, and ordered petitioner reinstated to the ASU faculty. For the reasons that follow, we reverse...

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