Report academic dishonesty, sexual harassment, retaliation, to a college dean, assistant dean, undergraduate dean, provost, university vice president, university Clery Act Compliance Officer, Title IX Officer, university president, so-called judicial administrator, faux police chief, etc.: at UAlbany none of them help. Most of them don't even reply at all.
"I tried to help you"?
Making empty promises of helping (while getting a promotion and claiming the promotion meant that any help would have to be delayed) and ultimately offering to let me apply to grad school if I first obtain the permission of the man who'd written me threats — when I can't afford to go to grad school, would go elsewhere than UAlbany if I could afford it, would not feel confident in the academic integrity there, and would not feel safe at UAlbany... hmm.
Aside from not helping me, what about all the students, faculty, staff, and visitors to campus who could use some help? A law-abiding university police department, for example, would be in the interest of every law-abiding person. How much of an effort's been made by anyone to pursue that goal?
"The committee concluded it was important to have a location where students may discuss their grievances privately without fear of faculty retribution."Professor Snyder mentioned the website entitled ratemyprofessor.com where students are able to post faculty names and comments. He mentioned an example where a student that posted negative comments never approached the faculty member to discuss the matter. Such comments place the University in a poor might and is worsened by the fact that the entire world can access the website."
"Committee on Academic Freedom, Freedom of Expression, and Community Responsibility." Undergraduate Academic Council. December 17, 2005.
See http://minervawept.blogspot.com/2013/02/suny-albany-cafe-no-students-served.html for further context.
"The real culprit in the tale is Barberich. I wonder if they'll acknowledge that." - John Monfasani, July 14, 2012 7:28 AM
I've wondered that too.
When a man with a PhD can't recognize "Siara is stopped immediately because it is dangerous because it can provoke people. But that news has been heard so many people, and in fact many people are affected by erita" as plagiarized gibberish (something a student actually submitted as his own writing along with a forged citation as the source he'd consulted) then perhaps he might have a problem or two? And yet UAlbany's done nothing about a visiting assistant professor who doesn't publish or do research for longer than they'd done nothing about a department chair, "one of the most honored and well paid professors on campus," Louis Roberts. Who Barberich's wife is (CSEA Capital District spokeswoman Therese Assalian) probably has nothing to do with what Barberich can get away with doing and not doing.
Monfasani, John. "The Case of Louis Roberts." History News Network. July 8, 2002. http://www.hnn.us/articles/588.html
In spite of knowing for years that students are afraid of faculty retribution, knowing for years that faculty retribution against students at UAlbany actually occurs, UAlbany has chosen not to address the problem and instead have students post negative comments online that the "entire world" can theoretically access (those who are literate, English-speaking, with Internet access, etc.). Perhaps when UAlbany addresses problems rather than threatening students (or their parents) or alumni who try reporting problems, then students will stop posting negative comments online? It's a thought, anyway.
Or try posting a comment here?
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