"I contacted Professor Paul Wallace in Classics, whom Schabel had informed of Roberts' thefts in December 2000. Professor Wallace confirmed that he himself had verified Schabel's evidence and had brought it to the attention of Vice President Carlos Santiago in January 2001. There was a meeting between Wallace, Roberts, and Santiago soon after; but nothing of signficance that I know of has happened since. I myself telephoned Vice President Santiago after returning, but he had nothing to add to what Professor Wallace had already told me."
Monfasani, John. "The Case of Louis Roberts." History News Network. July 8, 2002. http://hnn.us/articles/588.html
Even then, questions remained:
"In disregard of explicit "Inquiry Requirements" published in the Faculty Handbook, the inquiry in the L. Roberts plagiarism case was conducted in early 2001 by Provost Santiago, who made all the critical decisions, and not by the Vice President for Research; no efforts were made to avoid real or potential conflicts of interest during the inquiry; and there was no written report of the inquiry. There is widespread agreement that this mishandling of the inquiry substantially contributed to subsequent problems with this case. Details have been widely discussed at the April 24, 2002, Faculty Forum, at which time the administration admitted that errors had been made."The inconsistencies between President Hitchcock's letter to the University at Albany faculty of March 5, 2002, and the admitted errors made in the inquiry, have not been addressed.
"Other questions concerning the administration's statements and actions after the L. Roberts case became public in winter 2002 remain unanswered. (See, e.g., the letter of April 11, 2002, to President Hitchcock by concerned faculty, and the memorandum to the Albany University Community distributed at the Spring Faculty Meeting of May 8, 2002.)"
"Resolution 0203-1R For discussion at the 9/30/2002 Senate meeting. Introduced by Professors Sung Bok Kim, Sophie Lubensky, and R. Michael Range." University at Albany. http://www.albany.edu/resolution_0203-1R.htm
Carlos Santiago eventually left UAlbany for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).
Stratton, Brad. "Real-life collaborative experiences guide Chancellor Santiago forward." UWM Today 7(2). Summer 2005: 8-12. http://www4.uwm.edu/news/publications/uwm_today/upload/V7_N2.pdf
Santiago was replacing Nancy Zimpher at UWM to become its next Chancellor.
Hansen, Peter. "Impressive record of results; UWM chancellor well qualified to organize education reform effort." Research Profile 23(1). Spring 2001. http://graduateschool.uwm.edu/research/spectrum/snapshots/archives/research-profile/Archive/Vol23No1/zimpher.html
"Past Chancellors." University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. http://www4.uwm.edu/chancellor/past-chancellors.cfm
Zimpher was leaving UWM to become SUNY Chancellor:When working on the book, "A Time for Boldness," Nancy Zimpher prepared an imaginary, tongue-in-cheek advertisement that might have been used to recruit her as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1998.The ad would have read something like this: "Wanted: A leader for an institution that is experiencing a sense of invisibility and mission drift."
Her purpose in writing the fake ad was to point out that UWM was "a little adrift in who we were and what our purpose in life was," said Zimpher, who co-authored the 2002 book, a partial history of UWM, with Stephen Percy, director of UWM’s Center for Urban Initiatives, and Mary Jane Brukardt, a former senior writer at UWM. [...]
"The Milwaukee Idea has really allowed the university to pay more attention to building its research capacity, which I understand is a high priority of (current UWM chancellor) Carlos Santiago,” Zimpher said in a recent telephone interview from her Cincinnati office.
"It’s about building blocks," she said. "You have layer upon layer of work to build a university, and I like to feel like I was a building block from (former UWM chancellor) John Schroeder to Carlos Santiago."
Santiago agrees. As chancellor, Zimpher raised UWM’s profile to lay the foundation for the initiatives he is pursuing on campus today.
"It made my job easier because when I began talking about the key role UWM plays in regional economic development, people already had a sense of who we are, and the great potential that exists on our campus," Santiago said."
[...] her enthusiasm was infectious, a definite change from Milwaukee’s typically conservative — and male — community leadership at the time, said Milwaukee public relations executive H. Carl Mueller.
'She turned everyone’s heads and people were enthusiastic about the possibilities,' said Mueller, one of two UWM alumni to serve on the chancellor search committee that hired Zimpher. 'She encouraged bold, audacious ideas. ‘Don’t think small; I want to hear bold ideas,’ she would say. They didn’t hear a lot of that in old, conservative Milwaukee.”
The foundation that Zimpher helped set has since led to big changes and growth under Santiago’s tenure, such as the establishment of two new schools — public health and freshwater resources — the first new schools approved for UWM in more than 30 years, 'a huge achievement,' Mueller said.
Sneider, Julie. "Zimpher helped build new UWM vision." The Business Journal. August 10, 2008. http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/08/11/story10.html?page=all
Big, bold, new, audacious, anti-conservative, infectious solutions to mission drift? The problem of mission drift is a problem of new radical changes infecting old conservative university values (academic values, not necessarily political ones). Those solutions are seemingly the opposite of what was needed.
In 2012, with his UWM predecessor Zimpher at the head of SUNY, Carlos Santiago was inexplicably short-listed to become President of the University at Albany, in spite of those remaining questions about his handling of the Louis Roberts plagiarism scandal.
"The current list of finalists includes Robert Palazzo, former Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute provost; Carlos Santiago, chief executive officer of the Hispanic College Fund and a former UAlbany provost; John Roberts, dean of University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; Valeria Hardcastle, dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Carlo Montemagno, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati; and Steve Ballard, chancellor of East Carolina University."
Waldman, Scott. "UAlbany position finalists dwindle; Six candidates for president remain after three withdraw." Albany Times Union. July 31, 2012: A3. http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=19362498
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