How meaningful is an award from an organization that won't expel members who commit crimes like intimidation, retaliation, obstruction of justice, etc. (especially a student conduct administration group!) just as long as they pay their dues as a member?
From: William Lewis
Subject: Re: "Ethical Principles and Standards of Conduct"?
Date: August 4, 2012 9:19:22 AM EDT
To: "Christopher K. Philippo"
Cc: "Cox, Chauncey", Jennifer Waller
Mr. Phillipo,
ASCA is a membership organization, not a certifying body. From your email, it appears that you have an issue best addressed with the institutions administration, specifically the supervisor of the party you believe to be acting in bad faith.
Sincerely,
W. Scott Lewis, JD
• Partner, The NCHERM Group - The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, Ltd.
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[...]• President-Elect andCo-founder, The National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (www.NaBITA.org)
• Advisory Board Member and Co-Founder, Association for Title IX Administrators, (www.ATIXA.org)
• Advisory Board Member, School and College Organization for Prevention Educators (www.wearescope.org)
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From: "Christopher K. Philippo"
Date: Thursday, August 2, 2012 2:04 PM
To: William Lewis
Subject: Fwd: "Ethical Principles and Standards of Conduct"?
Dear Mr. Lewis,
Communications Specialist Chauncey Cox indicated that I could let you know that the Central Office suggested my contacting you.
In addition to the questions in the forwarded message, would ASCA have any records indicating what Mr. McNeill's degrees are, exactly? Three different webpages say three different things:
BS Business Administration
MS Education Administration
CAS in progress
"Degree: B.S. Business Administration, M.S. Education Administration, pursuing CAS" URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/phibetasigma/Akin.html. Accessed: 2012-08-01. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/69bPXhT1n)
BA Education Administration
MA Education Administration
CAS Education Administration
"B.A – 95’, M.A – 97’ & C.A.S – 03’ in Education Administration here at the University." URL: http://www.albany.edu/studentsuccess/clarence-mcneil.shtml. Accessed: 2012-08-01. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/69bPhCWKJ)
BA Africana Studies
MA Education Administration & Policy Studies
CAS Education Administration & Policy Studies
"He earned his B.A in Africana Studies in 1995, Master’s in Education Administration & Policy Studies in 1997 and his Certificate of Advanced Study in the same discipline." URL: http://www.albany.edu/studentconduct/staff.shtml. Accessed: 2012-08-01. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/69bPqNp53)
Let me know if you want any additional information. I have quite a lot, sad to say.
Thank you for any help you can provide,
[...]Begin forwarded message:
From: Christopher K. Philippo
Subject: "Ethical Principles and Standards of Conduct"?
Date: July 28, 2012 3:07:37 PM EDT
To: asca?tamu.edu
I'd reported a student for plagiarism and falsification, a professor for permitting academic dishonesty by students and teaching assistants, for faculty ethics violations, for sexual harassment, and retaliation; a chair for quid pro quo sexual harassment by forcing me to remain in the professor's class after I'd reported him to her. I sought help from my advisors.
My university's judicial administrator characterized my reporting them and my seeking help as attempts to disparage/discredit, as harassment, as fuel for civil/criminal litigation. He e-mailed a fraudulent cease and desist order to me and cc'd it to my retired mother (I'm thirty-eight). He put our home address on the order, despite never mailing it to me; he put a cc on the order to the professor I'd reported to him, thus letting my mother and me know that he'd provided that professor with our home address.
He promised to send my grade breakdown for the class, but never did. He let the professor cancel the final exam after the professor learned I'd arranged to take it at the Disability Resource Center, as was my right as a student with disabilities. The order claims it was issued because I'd violated a prior cease and desist order, but I'd never been sent a prior cease and desist order.
The order claims that the university police would "respond accordingly" (vague and intimidating, that) if I violate it, but UPD in response to a FOIA request denied having the order. The order claims it was cc'd to my Student File, but I obtained a copy of my Student File, and the order's not in it.
My university's Clery Act Compliance Officer supports the judicial administrator's claim that the order is legitimate and is being enforced by UPD. UPD, despite not sending me the order in response to a FOIA and not contradicting me when I expressed my doubt about its validity, nonetheless did not see it as a police matter and declined to investigate. The police chief claimed he'd forwarded the matter to the "office of Student Rights and Responsibilities." There is no such office. I guess he was referring the matter to the judicial administrator, whose Office of Conflict Resolution and Civic Responsibility distributes a publication titled Community Rights & Responsibilities. Referring a fraudulent cease and desist order to the man who wrote the fraudulent cease and desist order isn't exactly standard police procedure, I think.
The professor I reported is a nobody: a visiting assistant professor who hasn't been promoted in something like ten years. He's still working at the university after filing an obviously false police report about me the day after the judicial administrator informed him that I'd reported him. It appears the professor was trying to get me shot by the police.
However, the student I'd reported appears to be the athlete son of a major donor to the athletics program. The chair I'd reported applied for a half million dollar grant the same year I'd reported her, and is up for another chair and an award. I'm supposing what happened to me had something to do with those kinds of things.
"The premier authority in higher education for student conduct administration and conflict resolution," eh? Are all members of ASCA like McNeill? He'd won an award from ASCA, I understand.
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