Thread regarding Follett layoffs

3 weeks before Thanksgiving break, Macalester’s textbook manager Carey Starr was fired from the Highlander by Follett, the textbook purchasing company that Macalester contracted to provide the college’s textbook services in 2012. By Thanksgiving Day, Starr was reinstated into her former position, which she held for 26 years, with little communication from Follett and no change in her job description or compensation. The company gave no confirmed reason for the reversal in its decision, though professors and administrators alike were quick to take action against Starr’s termination in ways that are speculated to have played a role in the final outcome.