In West Va., the Jesuit president of Wheeling Jesuit University was fired by the all-Jesuit board of trustees, and it is they whom he has said he will sue.

The mixed laymen-Jesuit board of directors came close to the 2/3 vote necessary to fire him. 

Inside Higher Education says:

The dispute follows a critical audit by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the university’s grant agreements with NASA.

Inside Higher Education,8/5/09:  The audit

by NASA’s inspector general has found that the U.S. space agency “inappropriately approved, obligated, and partially expended” more than $4-million in costs incurred at Wheeling Jesuit University, in West Virginia.

As a result of the audit, the agency has agreed to renegotiate the rates it pays Wheeling Jesuit to run a center for encouraging the transfer of technologies between NASA and private industry.

Meanwhile, nothing on the threatened suit by the ousted president, Rev. Julio Giulietti, S.J., which would be a bizarre development by any measure I’m aware of.