Listen Honeypot, David Niland Sues UC
After 40 years teaching architecture at the University of Cincinnati, David Niland felt he earned the right to criticize UC over changes to its curriculum.
But after he took that criticism to faculty meetings and student sessions, UC told Niland, in unusually blunt terms, to stay away from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning where the program is housed.
He was welcome, UC officials told him in September 2006, only if he specifically was invited.
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Niland, who retired as a full-time faculty member in 2001, responded last week with a federal lawsuit, alleging UC violated his free-speech rights.Niland’s bosses also revoked his status as an adjunct professor and his privileges as a professor emeritus, according to the lawsuit.
“This is protected speech,” his lawyer Marc Mezibov said. “It’s speech on matters of public concern.”
