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Instructor fired for not changing grades.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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A former microbiology instructor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said the school is retaliating against her for refusing to change students' grades.

Heather Flowers has notified UMC of her intent to sue on grounds of defamation, wrongful termination and violation of the whistleblower law. She said UMC dismissed her after she refused to change four students' Fs to incompletes.

Although she had never before failed a student, four of Flowers' nine microbiology students failed her class in fall 2006. Flowers alleges that the department chair, Ham Benghuzzi, told her that if she could ...

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