Report of Board-Faculty Review Committee to the Board
Report states that the committee,
“After considering its commission and the voluminous correspondence received, arrived at the following recommendation:
That the Board not effect the removal of Mr. Shepherd from the seminary faculty until it is prepared to draft clear and explicit charges against Mr. Shepherd together with specifications and thereafter that Mr. Shepherd be granted abundant opportunity to defend the conduct of his office against those charges.
This recommendation was made because we deemed tin impossible for Mr. Shepherd to defend his office (Article III, Sec. 15 of Constitution) or to receive a hearing (Policy Statement on Tenure and Removal) without the charges being spelled out.” (Page 90)
Shepherd protested that the Board had erred in dismissing him without following the procedures of the said Policy Statement and requested he be reinstated.
The committee recommended to the Executive Committee of the board:
a. the implementation of the Policy Statement on Tenure and Removal.
b. the drawing up of charges and specifications prior to the Board’s February 11 meeting.