1st Circuit Court
Drew U Sued, Accused of Purloining Poetry Program & Students
Posted Oct 26, 2009, 12:39 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A federal judge in New Hampshire has given the green light to a lawsuit accusing New Jersey's Drew University of stealing a competing college's graduate-level poetry program and many of its students.
Poet Anne Marie Macari created the Drew program while serving for less than a year as interim director of a "low residency" New England College program in New Hampshire that awarded a master's of fine arts degree in poetry, the college's lawsuit contends, accusing her of breaching her contract and duty of loyalty. It says all eight of the faculty members at the Drew program formerly taught at the college, reports the Star-Ledger.
Drew must defend the case in New Hampshire, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph… Continue reading...
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