This post and subsequent articles on this topic of D:F/M’s BFL are written in the aftermath of bogus Violence in the Workplace Complaints filed in the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York.
One was against a former systems administrator. And the other, of course, was filed against this Colleague. Both targets were black, the main complainants of the bogus complaints weren’t – I believed that adds perspective. The systems administrator prevailed because he had a decent union backing him – Municipal Employees District Council 37, AFL-CIO, definitely not the Professional Staff Congress – and also, according to him, because of good lawyers. The duplicity and shenanigans of D:F/M captured attention, that’s for sure.
The CUNY administration ordered the Hunter Administration to get him out of D:F/M posthaste and give him a new job and a contract.
This Colleague benefitted from a flawed investigation by John Rose, Dean for Diversity & Compliance (more about him later) as well as the moronic ineptitude by Colleagues trying to cover up the breakdown at the department meeting by the Department Chair who said to this Colleague, “Hit me, hit me.”
This Colleague also benefitted from this incident which was embarrassing: Department Chair Jay Roman called Hunter security officers to remove the systems administrator from a department meeting to keep him from announcing that he was leaving and that D:F/M’s state of the art undergraduate IT network would no longer be supported by the College. In a subsequent faculty meeting, Chair Roman made a cryptic comment about the Administration decision to remove itself from the internecine warfare in D:F/M.
“Internecine warfare” might be considered an exaggeration but believe me it’s not that much, that’s for sure.
More about this later.
Tami Gold trying to intimidate a Colleague at a faculty meeting when the Department Chair lost his cool and asked a Colleague, “Hit me, hit me.”
Gregg Morris, editor of the WORD and this site.
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