Dive Brief:

• An adjunct faculty member opposed to a plan that would split the District of Columbia's Corcoran Gallery of Art from its College of Art + Design has been terminated by the school.
• All signs point to the termination being a retaliatory strike by Peggy Loar, Corcoran’s interim director and president, the Los Angeles Times reported, though Loar declined to comment.
• The adjunct, Jayme McLellan, is co-founder of Save the Corcoran, a non-profit group of students, faculty, staff, and donors that filed a court complaint opposing the proposed Corcoran breakup.

Dive Insight:

The Corcoran split would send its museum collection to the National Gallery of Art and have the art school and Beaux Arts building, across from the White House, taken over by George Washington University. A District of Columbia Superior Court judge is expected to rule on the proposal this month. McLellan received notification of her termination three days after the chair of the fine arts department had emailed her to make sure her contract had been received.