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UCLA Faculty Statements on a Student Termination
The UCLA faculty members' statements below and on this website's Home Page were made after my termination from UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSEIS). I'm providing the email addresses below so that these faculty members can be contacted regarding their statements.
"I will argue that [this termination decision] indicates that you have been made to pay with your academic career for department error (no copies of probation letters to me), professor and university disorganisation (incompletes not being processed), [and] carelessness by whoever (Harold claimed it was the Grad Division office?) issues the dismissal notice (for their failure to verify the situation)."
Dr. Nicholas Blurton-Jones; UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies: nickbj@ucla.edu / blurtonjones@gseis.ucla.edu
"[N]either of us had been asked for any background information on Mr. Wilde's case. Nor apparently was much effort taken to verify the apparent facts of Mr. Wilde's academic record. Incompletes that had been cleared were listed as Fs and no enquiries about their real status or about the student's general progress were made."
Dr. Blurton-Jones & Dr. Val Rust; UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies: nickbj@ucla.edu / rust@gseis.ucla.edu
"The case is clear-cut: they had no basis for dismissing you, as you met the formal qualifications. Moreover, they gave no other reasons, so any further reasons they give now are beside the point. All this is obvious."
Dr. Robert Brenner; UCLA Department of History: rbrenner@ucla.edu / brenner@history.ucla.edu
"This [termination] is a wrong to right."
Dr. Val Rust; UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies: rust@gseis.ucla.edu
(N.B. Dr. Rust made this statement to Dr. Robert Brenner, and I thereafter corroborated his statement at a meeting with Dr. Rust. Apparently anxious that I was in fact meeting with him to corroborate this statement, he then backpedaled a bit by saying, "This [termination] seems to be a wrong to right." I have used his 'backpedaled' statement in documents found on this website, but the statement quoted above also stands as his own. I was once more accepting of professors' prevarications; I am much less so now.)
I telephoned the UCLA Graduate Division to ask whether it checks the veracity of the information on which it bases its student termination decisions; the then-Associate Dean Kathleen Komar answered:
"We cannot be expected to do that."
Dr. Kathleen Komar; UCLA Dept. of Comparative Literature: komar@ucla.edu / 310-825-3406
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