By Rose Gruenbacher
After an all-day internal hearing, a committee of six tenured K-State professors found Wednesday that university attorneys provided sufficient evidence to terminate the employment of a fellow faculty member, after allegations of forged and falsified medical documents in a dispute spanning multiple months.
Rebecca Hackemann Bahlmann, formerly a professor of photography in the College of Arts and Sciences, was dismissed from her role as a tenured professor in October. The hearing process allows a panel to decide whether there were grounds to reinstate. Bahlmann is suing the university for discrimination and retaliation.
Bahlmann, a globally recognized artist and photographer, came to K-State as a professor in 2013. She earned tenure status in 2017.
