See E.A. § 16-503. See Gardiner v. Tschechtelin, 765 F. Supp. 279, 281-82 (D.Md. 1991), for a discussion of the history of BCCC. In 1996, appellant filed a multi-count complaint in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Dr. James D. Tschechtelin, President of BCCC; the Board of Trustees of the College (the "Board"); the individual members of the Board (the "Trustees"); and the State of Maryland, appellees herein.
A tenured faculty member may be terminated for reasons not personal to the faculty member, however. See, e.g., Adams, 117 Md. App. at 714, 701 A.2d 1113; Krotkoff v. Goucher College, 585 F.2d 675, 679-80 (4th Cir. 1978); see also Gardiner v. Tschechtelin, 765 F. Supp. 279 (D.Md. 1991) (holding State violated neither Contracts Clause nor Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution when it took over financially troubled City College and abrogated tenure of faculty members). Tenure systems are based, to some extent, on the 1940 Statement of Principles and Interpretive Comments developed by the Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Professors. Nevertheless, there is no uniform tenure system.