Posts Tagged ‘The Peter Jackson Who Signed the Moveon.org Petition’

A Snippet of What’s Coming in 2018?

Wednesday, December 27th, 2017

The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth, Absolutely

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CUNY Adopts New Series of Reforms to Bolster Fiscal and Ethical Integrity Of Administrative Operations

Wednesday, December 27th, 2017

The Trustees of The City University of New York enacted on Monday a second round of reforms of the university’s governance and administrative policies, ensuring greater transparency and accountability by CUNY and its 24 individual institutions. Along with changes adopted by the board in June, the revised policies put CUNY at the vanguard of financial integrity in higher education, said Board Chairperson William C. Thompson, Jr. Read full statement here.

Some might wonder what this has to do with workplace and academic bullying at CUNY.

Stay tuned.

Wednesday, December 27th, 2017

Here are the top reads of Colleague David Yamada’s posts of 2017 about workplace bullying. Must reading for those concerned about workplace and academic bullying.

He is the premier legal expert on workplace bullying the United States and author of the Healthy Workplace Bill.

Happy Holidays James Milliken, Outgoing Chancellor of the City University of New York: Did You Know That the CUNY Violence in the Workplace Policy and the CUNY Student Complaint Procedures for Filing Complaints Against Professors Are Being Used for Censorship and Harassment?

Tuesday, December 26th, 2017

Note to Readers: James B. (“J.B.”) Milliken was president of University of Nebraska-Lincoln before he was hired at CUNY. University of Nebraska-Lincoln prides itself as “The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is home to leading researchers who have studied bullying in the workplace as well as in school settings.”

That was one of the reasons I delivered a moveon.org petition to his office a while back supporting the New York State Healthy Workplace Bill. I wasn’t sure what would happen or if there would be a response but when it happened it was like wow!

Does censorship and harassment and bullying facilitate outright academic debauchery? More about this later

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Report from the (Hunter College) Academic Freedom Committee: Film and Media’s Special Public Relations Seminar, MEDP 299.48: Part 1, Without Comment

Tuesday, December 26th, 2017


An important document for understanding how things work at Hunter and in the Department of Film and Media Studies.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2017

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Protected: Draft: Open Letter to City University of New York Chancellor James B. Milliken Who Recently Announce That He Was Stepping Down at the End of This Semester

Sunday, November 26th, 2017

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Protected: What Would Salman Rushdie Think of a Complaint File with Hunter College Public Safety by a Department of Film and Media Studies Colleague Alleging That a Colleague Was Targeting Him with a Fatwa? – Part 1

Friday, November 24th, 2017

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Here is the Hunter College Ombuds Report That Says Academic Mobbing and Bullying Have Been on the Rise at Hunter College, City University of New York

Friday, November 24th, 2017

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The Latest from the Massachusetts Healthy Workplace Bill Advocates

Monday, November 20th, 2017

Ending sexual harassment at work means ending workplace bullying, says today’s LA Times

For the first time since the Harvey Weinstein scandal became public, a major publication made the connection between sexual harassment and workplace bullying, even noting the workplace anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill and its author David Yamada.

Read entire article here.

This writer networks with healthy workplace advocates in other states, especially the East Coast and especially Massachusetts.