Posts Tagged ‘Hunter College’
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
His name at the time of his departure was Dean Erec R. Koch, a Ruth and Harold Newman Dean, and the Hunter community learned of his departure in a Tuesday, July 2 email: “I write with great regret to inform you that I will no longer serve as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. It has been a tremendous honor and privilege to work with the talented and dedicated A&S faculty and staff during the past two years.*
Former Dean Erec R. Koch at the resignation party of Assistant Dean Maria Anderson
It was sent in the wake of brutally frank comments about President Raab in an earlier resignation letter by a former assistant dean to Dean Koch. In that earlier resignation letter, the resigning Assistant Dean, Maria Anderson, castigated Raab for “personal attacks” and creating “a culture of fear and mistrust,” and she also wrote that Dean Koch had been targeted by President Raab. “It is quite clear that a witch-hunt against you is underway and that it includes an attempt to fabricate instances of financial mismanagement on your part. You are certainly the prime target, though as the chief financial officer of the School, the daily expenditure decisions were largely mine to make,” Anderson wrote.
The names of others in the Dean’s office were mentioned in the email.
Dean Koch said at the resignation party for Dean Anderson that he had not been terminated. It was a wry comment without sarcasm. Several days later he announced his resignation.
This is the first of several stories.
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Tags:Academic Bullying, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, Jay Roman, Jennifer Raab, Princess Hee Haw & the Hee Haw Rangers, Vanessa Casavant
Posted in Blogroll, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, The Controversy Continues, Wooly Bully | Comments Closed
Saturday, June 15th, 2013
The email I sent to NYS Senator John DeFrancisco, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is better than the previous one sent to several senators on the Labor Committee of the New York State Senate. It’s more accurate.
S3863
Greggory w Morris
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:32 AM
To:
Senator John DeFrancisco [jdefranc@nysenate.gov]
Dear Senator John DeFrancisco, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee,
I am a tenured assistant journalism professor at Hunter College and I am writing to ask you to put S3863 on the Senate Finance Committee agenda before the legislative session ends. The workplace bullying that I have witnessed and experienced at Hunter is the most profane in my journalism career as a reporter and teacher.
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Tags:Anti-workplace bullying, CUNY, D:F/M, Hunter College, NYS Healthy Workplace Bill S3863, workplace bullying
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism Education, The Controversy Continues, Wooly Bully | Comments Closed
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
I posted the following on the Hunter College Listserv, which is the main listserv for the College. Hopefully, its obviously explanatory.
So:
I was up in Albany early in the fall semester for my first lobbying efforts to support this NYS workplace anti-bullying bill with professors from several campuses around the state. Lobbying can be empowering. We were joined by serious activists. More about this later.
I sent the following off to New York State Senator José Peralta, Minority Whip and the rest of the labor committee members:
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Tags:Academic Bullying, D:F/M, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, New York Healthy Workplace Advocates, work place bullying
Posted in Blogroll, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, The Controversy Continues | Comments Closed
Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Mike Schlicht reports that the New York State Psychological Association reissued its memorandum of support for Healthy Workplace Bill.
Memorandum in Support
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing
a private cause of action for an abusive work environment
The New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA), representing more than 3,000 psychologists and students of psychology, supports A4965 which aims to ensure that all individuals have access to a healthy work environment, free from abuse of any kind. Our comments are offered from the perspective of professionals who serve the public in addressing their emotional, psychological and behavioral health needs and are committed to the promotion of a psychologically healthy workplace in all settings.
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Tags:Academic Bullying, D:F/M, Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, Hunter College, NYHWPA, NYS Bill S3863, Professional Staff Congress, Tami Gold
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, The Controversy Continues, Wooly Bully | Comments Closed
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
The Healthy Workplace Bill was referred to the Senate Finance Committee in the next step of the legislative process. The Chair of the Senate Finance Committee is Senator John DeFranciso and he represents parts of the Syracuse area. NYHWA would like to setup a meeting with him at the District office in the very near future to speak with him about the bill. NYHWA is looking for constituents of his, people who work in his district and those who are from the Greater Syracuse area to speak briefly about their workplace bullying experience as we ask for him to place the bill on the agenda for a vote.
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Tags:Academic Bullying, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, workplace bullying
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, The Controversy Continues | Comments Closed
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
This past Monday, June 3, Healthy Workplace Bill, S3863 was passed by the New York State Senate Labor Committee. More about this later but I had this to say …
Editor
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Tags:Academic Bullying, D:F/M, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, NY Health Workplace Bill, the usual suspects, workplace bullying
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, The Controversy Continues, The March 11 D:F/M Faculty Meeting, Wooly Bully | Comments Closed
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Tags:Academic Bullying, D:F/M, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, the usual suspects
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Student Journalism, The Controversy Continues | Comments Closed
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Tags:Aronson Awards, Bernard Stein, collegiate journalism, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, Student Journalism
Posted in Blogroll, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, Student Journalism | Comments Closed
Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 12:31 p.m. I got an email from Envoy reporter Sophie Simon who wanted to interview me about the call I put out for a boycott of the Aronson Awards. She was fed, according to her email, bogus information (of course) which she accepted as gospel (of course).
The plot thickens.
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Tags:Arson Awards, collegiate journalism, Hunter College, Hunter D:F/M, Hunter Envoy, journalism awards, journalism ethics, Sophie Simon, Student Journalism
Posted in Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, Ethics, Journalism, Journalism Education, Student Journalism, The Controversy Continues | Comments Closed
