{"id":73365,"date":"2016-07-25T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/adams-state-to-pay-100k-after-president-bans-ex-professor\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:42:53","slug":"adams-state-to-pay-100k-after-president-bans-ex-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/adams-state-to-pay-100k-after-president-bans-ex-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams State to pay 100K after president bans ex-professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=91f3b7a1-c29c-4845-8b33-313012209185&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1170\" height=\"657\" alt=\"Adams State President Beverlee McClure\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Adams State President Beverlee McClure<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBy summarily banning Danny (Ledonne) from a public campus and falsely labeling him a security threat, without providing any opportunity to rebut the false allegations, the university deprived him of due process and unjustifiably retaliated against him for his constitutionally-protected criticism of university practices,\u201d ACLU of Colorado said.<\/p>\n<p>From May 2011 to June 2015, Ledonne taught in the mass communications program and performed video production work for Adams State. In September 2015, after his employment at the university had ended, he launched WatchingAdams.org and  Ledonne posted a series of articles on the site criticizing the pay disparity between faculty and the administration and alleging that Adams State had violated the Colorado Wage Act by not making timely payments to adjunct professors.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, university President Beverlee McClure banned Ledonne from Adams State.<\/p>\n<p>McClure made unsubstantiated public claims that Ledonne had engaged in \u201charassment,\u201d \u201cdirect and indirect threats,\u201d and \u201cterrorism,\u201d the ACLU said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State President Beverlee McCluredu1-i-syn \u201cBy summarily banning Danny (Ledonne) from a public campus and falsely labeling him a security threat, without providing any opportunity to rebut the false allegations, the university deprived him of due process and unjustifiably retaliated against him for his constitutionally-protected criticism of university practices,\u201d ACLU of Colorado said. From May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1615,155,298],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-constitution","tag-education","tag-university"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73365"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}