This has got to be the Outrage of the Week.
Convicted in 1991 and sentenced to prison for sexual abuse of special education students, he received tenure at the College of Education at the University of Georgia.
-- until they found out.
October 24, 2008 - The University of Georgia fired a newly-tenured associate professor in the College of Education when they learned of his criminal sex crime conviction.
Cecil Fore III, 50, was convicted Jan. 16, 1991, on multiple counts of sexually abusing three special-education students in Montgomery junior high schools where he was a teacher. He was sentenced to serve three years in a sex offenders’ unit of the Alabama penal system, followed by five years’ probation.
The victim was in the eighth grade in a special-education program at Floyd Junior High School in Montgomery at the time of the abuse.
Alabama records show that Fore’s teaching license was revoked by the state in 1991. Despite that,
after his release from prison, Fore worked from fall 1995 to May 1996 as assistant principal at the small private nonprofit McInnis School, affiliated with the Montgomery Association for Retarded Citizens. The school serves students with IQs of less than 70, said agency executive director John Morris.Fore finished his doctorate at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale from 1997-1999.
He came to the University of Georgia from Troy State University in Alabama, where the human resources department confirmed that he taught in the department of psychology and education from 1999 until resigning in 2001.
As of Jan. 1, 2008, the university began full background checks for anyone being appointed or promoted, but Fore was granted tenure shortly before that policy took effect.
