{"id":2007,"date":"2020-09-01T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2020-09-01T05:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:51:45","slug":"eric-rasmusen-has-not-been-suspended-or-placed-on-administrative-leave-contrary-to-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/eric-rasmusen-has-not-been-suspended-or-placed-on-administrative-leave-contrary-to-news-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Rasmusen Has Not Been Suspended or Placed on Administrative Leave, Contrary to News Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     The local public radio station reported that Indiana spokesman Chuck Carney said I had been &#8220;placed on administrative leave without pay&#8221;. That is false. I asked them to correct it, and they just changed it to &#8220;placed on leave without pay&#8221;. In truth, on August 13, 2019 I applied, voluntarily, long before any Twitter controversy, for &#8220;academic leave&#8211;without pay&#8221; for the 2020-2021 academic year, applying a year in advance as is the polite thing to do so your chairman can find a replacement teacher for the year you&#8217;re gone. I wanted to focus on my writing this year. <\/p>\n<p> I explain this in great detail at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/special\/academic-leave-news.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/special\/academic-leave-news.pdf<\/a>, with links to Indiana defamation law. Something this small is hardly worth the fees one would have to pay a lawyer to sue, but it does seem a pretty clear case of defamation. The story is a good one for seeing how universities behave and the contrasting degrees of skepticism different media outlets have for claims by government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local public radio station reported that Indiana spokesman Chuck Carney said I had been &#8220;placed on administrative leave without pay&#8221;. That is false. I asked them to correct it, and they just changed it to &#8220;placed on leave without pay&#8221;. In truth, on August 13, 2019 I applied, voluntarily, long before any Twitter controversy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rasmusen.org\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}