Edward Egan and Thane Naberhaus were fired on Monday, February 8 from their faculty positions at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland.

[UPDATE 2/16: As reported in the Frederick News-Post, the Board of Trustees' investigation into the fired faculty members involved accessing their e-mail communications: http://tinyurl.com/zuyqd4p.]

[UPDATE 2/14: On Friday, February 12 the administration announced that Egan and Naberhaus had been reinstated. However, the administration did not lift the threat of legal action contained in their original letters of termination. It remains very important to support them in this way.]

Egan, who advised the Pre-Law program, was also the faculty supervisor to the Mountain Echo, the student newspaper that broke the news that the president of Mount St. Mary's devised a plan to dismiss at-risk students in order to improve the university's retention statistics. (http://msmecho.com/2016/01/19/mount-presidents-attempt-to-improve-retention-rate-included-seeking-dismissal-of-20-25-first-year-students/)

Naberhaus, a tenured philosophy professor, joined Egan and others in opposing and then speaking out against these actions.

Both of them were fired by the president for lack of "loyalty" to Mount St. Mary's.

Contributions to this fund will be used to cover any legal fees incurred in helping Ed and Thane win back their jobs. Any contributions that are not needed for this purpose will be donated to Bottom Line, Inc. (http://www.bottomline.org/), a charity devoted to helping disadvantaged college students get in to college, graduate, and go far in life.