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Constitutional Law Keyed to Rotunda
Board of Regents v. Roth
Citation:
408 U.S. 564 (1972)Only StudyBuddy Pro offers the complete Case Brief Anatomy*
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In 1968 Roth was hired for one year as an assistant professor at Wisconsin State University. At the end of the year, he was told that he would not be rehired for the next academic year. Under Wisconsin statutes, a tenured teacher was entitled to continued employment during efficiency and good behavior but state law left the decision whether to rehire a nontenured teacher like Roth to the “unfettered discretion of university officials.” A nontenured teacher has somewhat similar protection as to tenured teacher but only during his one year term. Technically, there was no real protection for a nontenured teacher who was simply not rehired at the end of the contract. No reason need be given for nonretention and there were no review or appeals.
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