Dave Powell

Well, the economy is apparently affecting a college that receives millions of dollars per year in donations and charges $30,000 in tuition per year per student, if not more now. 

David Powell, a part time english professor at Maryville College was terminated due to budget cuts. 

This is absolutely rediculious, not only was he an amazing professor, and there was no reason he should have ever been cut. He participated in many of the college activities, wasn't afraid to speak his mind, and opened up literature in a way that no other teacher had ever opened it. 

He had 1 year left before he was eligible for retirement benefits, and there are no other reasons listed other than "not upholding maryville college's standards inside and outside the classroom." If there was ever an embodiment of Maryvillie college, it would have been in David Powell, and they just made an ignorant decision to let him go.