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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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January 3, 2007
Former Dean Accuses U. of Wisconsin Campus of Race Bias in Federal Lawsuit
A former dean at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater has filed a federal racial-discrimination lawsuit against the university, after campus officials demoted him when an audit found he had misspent university money, the Associated Press reported late Tuesday.
Lee J. Jones began working as dean of graduate studies and continuing education at Whitewater in 2004. In the fall of 2005 the university completed the audit and stripped him of his dean’s position, reassigning him as a tenured professor of education. Mr. Jones then filed a racial-discrimination complaint with Wisconsin’s Equal Rights Division, saying the audit had “found no intentional wrongdoing” and charging that his demotion had been “motivated by unlawful race discrimination.” He resigned from the university last April.
In 1999 Mr. Jones helped found Brothers of the Academy, a nationwide group aimed at increasing the number of black men who earn Ph.D.’s and work in academe.
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Whitewater under the new Chancellor Martha Saunders fired both of the black deans two monts apart.
— mack Jan 4, 05:47 AM #
At least in the case of one of the deans, a thorough background check prior to hiring would have undoubtedly resulted in a different outcome in the hiring process.
— Torg Jan 4, 11:28 AM #
What prompted the audit in the first place? Was it a routine audit or a special audit because wrong doing was suspected?
— JoDee Jan 4, 04:31 PM #