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This Semester
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011Revisiting the 2009 UFS Faculty Survey Review: Re-Visit I
Monday, November 16th, 2009
I whisked through questions to complete the survey even as the questions were raising more questions. Like this one, Question 5f: Level of Respect Shown to Faculty by College President. Should there have been a similar question about department chairs?
Faculty Experience Survey – Uh Oh!
Thursday, November 12th, 2009A Call for Proposals: State of Higher Education
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
June 9-12, Washington, D.C.: “The goal of the conference is to provide a faculty perspective on critical issues in higher education presented in a format accessible to the general public.”
“Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes†– New York Times
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009So, what do students think about this? The question to be posed sometime March 18 on Hunter-L, the College’s main listserv for general info and communication for the Hunter community, this being this New York Times article. The Big Question to be put to the students: Should I reconsider my default grade, B?
Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera (A Work in Progress) – Part IV
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
At the meeting I’ve referred to as this first blip on the radar,  I revealed my contact with the New York Civil Liberties Union but didn’t reveal my contact with the National Writers Union, which had responded positively to my request for support.
Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera (A Work in Progress) Part III
Monday, March 9th, 2009Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
Now, colleague Larry Shore, former chair of the department’s grade appeals committee which I had been describing in several venues “as one of the most corrupt” at Hunter if not CUNY, candidly responded to the question, “Recommend For New Business, Wednesday, Grade Tampering in F/M – A Big Barnacle: Is a Discussion Needed?” His comments, however, never made it into the department minutes.