City College Students Slam School For Letting Popular Journo Prof. Go

There’s a mid-80s movie-script writing itself over the City University of New York, where students are still in “shock” after the school failed to permanently hire Curtis R. Simmons, a two-year substitute assistant professor in the college’s Media and Communication Arts department who is credited with turning the program around. Instead, the college offered the job “to an academic with no experience working in a newsroom.”