A professor who says he was fired for being a rankings whistleblower has settled the lawsuit he brought against his former employer — and received not only exoneration but a big payday, too.
Richard Arend, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, was fired by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Bloch School of Management in 2016 for what the school characterized as “a demonstrated substantial lack of fitness in the professional capacity as a teacher and researcher.” But Arend consistently and adamantly contended that he was fired for being a whistleblower, having called foul on data submitted by the school for research and entrepreneurship rankings, and he sued the school in 2017.
More than five years later, Arend’s lawsuit was finally settled in March, with the Bloch School agreeing to pay its former professor $625,000 — and acknowledging that Arend was right about the faulty data used by the school to inflate its rankings.
Arend and the Bloch School issued a joint statement announcing the settlement and agreed not to make further comments. However, Arend spoke to Poets&Quants at length about the case in February 2021.
“No student has ever filed any formal complaint against me,” Arend, now the LL Bean/Lee Surace chair in strategic management at the University of Southern Maine School of Business, said last year. “Although the University of Missouri System contends the dismissal is about a ‘lack of...
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