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Head baseball coach Scott Winterburn, whose team won the SCIAC championship last May, accepted a new position as assistant athletic director with mixed feelings, following a failed tenure bid that caused University of La Verne administrative officials to change his job classification from faculty member to administrator.

Though the University of La Verne shuttered its Athens, Greece, campus in 2004, that chapter of the University’s life has not ended, as officials here are finding themselves embroiled in legal struggles stemming from the way in which the Athens campus was closed.

Dedicating one's self to a job and a career deserves credit and recognition. At colleges and universities, dedicated faculty who take their job seriously have been recognized and are being awarded.

University of La Verne officials dismissed economics professor Jim McCourt after articles appeared in local newspapers indicating he was moonlighting at Pepperdine University.