All: With apologies for cross posting here, but this is important, and
needs all the support one can muster. Please consider writing, if so
inclined. -- Johnson
>We have a terrible injustice that we all need to get together and
>correct.Linda Ware, a Professor in the Warner School of Education at the
>University of Rochester was just denied promotion in a third-year review.
>Linda has been in the forefront of trying to establish disabilities
>studies within the area of education. She was lured away from her
>previous position specially to explore implementing a disability studies
>program at the University of Rochester, given an endowed teaching
>position, and a considerable research budget. But when the Dean who hired
>her left in July 2000, the new Dean refused to honor that charge and has
>initiated a process that led to Ware's firing. She was not only denied
>continuance, but she has been banned from the
>campus and relieved of all duties except the teaching of her classes.
>
>This story is so outrageous in the light of the following facts:
>
>1) Ware's scholarship and service exceeded that of any other person
>coming up for a third-year review in the past 10 years. They were all
>granted continuance and she was not.
>
>2) Her work in disability studies, for which she was specifically
>hired, was not understood or addressed in her review. No one reading her
>materials had any expertise whatever in that field.
>
>3) She is the only Native American scholar in her school.
>
>4) In the two years she was there she brought in grant monies of over
>$100,000.
>
>5) She was responsible for setting up ongoing seminars on disability
>studies supported by the Spencer Foundation and the NEH. While many
>faculty and students attended these two years of invited speakers and
>discussion, not a single member of her own faculty did--thus assuring that
>they would remain uneducated about disability studies.
>
>6) She actively worked with the local schools to establish disability
>studies issues in K-12 classrooms in the district.
>
>7) There is no formal appeal process at the University of Rochester.
>All Ware can do is to ask the Dean and the Department to reconsider.
>There are also no daylight provisions by which Ware can see her files.
>This fact alone places the University in violation of the AAUP's
>guidelines concerning promotion and tenure.
>
>We must make the University understand that it cannot act in the
>arbitrary way, particularly when it comes to issues around disability
>studies.
>
>If her Dean cannot see the usefulness of this field and its validity, then
>we must make administrators in that institution understand. This won't be
>an easy fight, but what we need now is an avalanche of
>letters protesting this decision, telling the institution that national
>and international attention will be drawn to this injustice.
>Please send your letters to:
>
> President Thomas Jackson
> 240 Wallis Hall
> RC Box 270011
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Provost Charles Phelps
> 200 Wallis Hall
> RC Box 270021
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Interim Dean Raffaella Borasi
> RC Box 270425
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Thanks for your help in righting this wrong.
>Best,
>
> Lennard J. Davis
> Professor and Head
> Department of English (MC 162)
> Professor of Disability Studies and Human Development
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> 601 South Morgan Street
> Chicago, Illinois 60607-7120
> Phone: 312-413-2200 or 718-543-8821
> Fax: 312-413-1005
> Cell: 312-952-5687
> E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Linda P. Ware
> University of Rochester
> Warner Graduate School
> PO Box 270425
> Rochester, New York 14627-0425
> 716-275-3010
> --
>
>
>
Johnson Cheu
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http://people.english.ohio-state.edu/cheu.1
The Ohio State University
Dept. of English
421 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th. Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-1730 (Office); (614) 292-6065 (Dept.); (614) 292-7816 (Fax)
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