Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category

Minding the Workplace: When Meetings Are Used to Reinforce Pre-Existing Hierarchies and Exclusionary Patterns

Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Professor David Yamada writes that, after 27 years in academe, he has “come to understand that the most morale-killing misuse of meetings is to reinforce pre-existing hierarchies and exclusionary patterns.” This sounds very familiar to this writer-blogger. Very familiar. Click here for full Minding the Workplace column.

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Monday, April 2nd, 2018


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Before THEY Screwed Things Up

Saturday, March 31st, 2018

Former WORD Senior Editor Jonathan Mena, far left. Former WORD Senior Editor Daniel Allen, sitting to right of William C. Thompson, Jr. when he was the NYC Comptroller and is now Chair of the CUNY Board of Trustees. The other students are from Columbia U. and NYU. All were invited to meet with the Comptroller who was reaching out to NYC college students.

Kisha Allison, Jacqueline Fernandez and Jonathan Mena cruising Denver streets for a good restaurant. They were in the city for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, covering the nomination of Barack Obama.

Former WORD Senior Editor Kisha Allison, recipient of the Ramona Moore scholarship from the National Association of of Black Journalists, New York City Chapter.

Friday, March 30th, 2018

Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018

The Practice of the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, To use the CUNY Violence in the Workplace Policy and Student Complaint Procedures Against Faculty to Attack Colleagues and Staff Wouldn’t Happen If Department Leadership Was Truly Diverse

Thursday, March 8th, 2018

D:F/M is using CUNY policies as weapons to attack Colleagues.

The Anderson Polsky Gambit Soon to Be a DSM-5 Footnote? Or Just Another Gestapo Tactic?*

Friday, March 2nd, 2018

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Hogwash!

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018

From a recent department email:

“As you all know, there is the issue of confidentiality in our meetings. Department by-laws explicitly state that department meetings are confidential (IV.B.5. on p.7). The only public record that can come out of the meeting is the approved minutes. Any other publication, including a blog post, violates the by-laws, and potentially be the basis for disciplinary action.”

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A Must Read

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018

We hope that these volumes will be useful in different ways, depending on the individual reader’s needs. For some, this material will yield specific research summaries or potential good practices. For others, single chapters or groups of chapters will be worth cover-to-cover reads to obtain topical overviews. For those who want a comprehensive overview of workplace bullying and mobbing, a full reading of both volumes will provide a useful, comprehensive starting point. In any event, we trust that engaging with these volumes will be time well spent.

I consult with this Colleague from time to time and believe buying the book is a truly MUST READ.