Dive Brief:

• The University of Saskatchewan says it will bring back a tenured professor it fired for speaking out against the school’s budget cuts and restructuring plans.
• Professor Robert Buckingham, however, will not get his job back as head of the School of Public Health.
• The university’s president, Ilene Busch-Vishniac, issued a public apology and said the decision to fire the professor was “a blunder.”

Dive Insight:

Revoking the firing but leaving in place the loss of the leadership role still gets the message across to would-be critics on the university’s payroll. Busch-Vishniac said the university is looking into how the firing happened, and that those involved will be disciplined. Buckingham’s loss of his executive director position was for “acting contrary to the expectations of his leadership role,” CBC reported. Buckingham told CBC that he'd love to go back to the school and that he has no hard feelings toward administrators.