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From: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:40 PM
To: Marguerite Carter
Subject: UCLA
Dear Meg,
I'm contacting you and others in your Office of Ethics, Compliance & Audit Services to bring to your attention the facts of my termination from UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. You can find these facts and find out more about how UCLA goes about terminating a student at this website: ucla-weeding101.info
I urge you to carefully examine the documents found on the website, as they show UCLA administrator and faculty statements and actions that appear to be extremely serious violations of the University of California Codes of Conduct.
I'd be happy to answer questions you may have on any of the documents and/or material on the website.
Sincerely,
Tom Wilde
[contact information deleted]
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Marguerite Carter wrote:
From: Marguerite Carter <Marguerite.Carter@ucop.edu>
Date: April 12, 2010 10:50:11 AM PDT
To: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Cc: "Cormier, Bill" <bcormier@capnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: RE: UCLA
Good Morning, Mr. Wilde,
Thank you for contacting the University of California’s Office of Ethics, Compliance & Audit Services with your concern regarding termination from your graduate program at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The University of California takes allegations of misconduct seriously and is committed to an impartial review process.
Our Whistleblower Policy, available at http://ucwhistleblower.ucop.edu/policy.html, provides for local review of complaints, wherever possible. Each campus has a Locally Designated Official (LDO), responsible for determination of reported misconduct. I forwarded your e-mail to UCLA’s LDO, Mr. Bill Cormier. When he has completed his review, he’ll notify you of the disposition of your complaint.
Thank you.
Meg
Meg Carter, CCEP
Sr. Analyst, Investigations
University of California, Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street, #5327E
Oakland, CA 94607
510.987.0592/marguerite.carter@ucop.edu
From: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Date: April 12, 2010 10:59:54 PM PDT
To: Marguerite Carter <Marguerite.Carter@ucop.edu>
Subject: Re: UCLA
Hello Meg,
Thank you for your prompt reply, and for passing this matter along to UCLA's Locally Designated Official, Mr. Bill Cormier.
Sincerely,
Tom Wilde
From: John Lohse <John.Lohse@ucop.edu>
Date: April 13, 2010 9:14:59 AM PDT
To: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Cc: "Cormier, Bill" <bcormier@capnet.ucla.edu>, Sheryl Vacca <Sheryl.Vacca@ucop.edu>, Lynda Hilliard <Lynda.Hilliard@ucop.edu>, Luanna Putney <Luanna.Putney@ucop.edu>, "Cataldo, Peter" <Peter.Cataldo@ucsf.edu>, Marguerite Carter <Marguerite.Carter@ucop.edu>, Claudia White <Claudia.White@ucop.edu>, Teresa Alvarez <Teresa.Alvarez@ucop.edu>, Matthew Hicks <Matthew.Hicks@ucop.edu>
Subject: RE: UCLA
Dear Mr. Wilde:
You had been previously advised by the Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services that your recent communication regarding your termination from UCLA’s Graduate Program would be referred to UCLA for handling. UCLA has informed this Office that your complaints were the subject of protracted litigation in Superior Court and the Court of Appeals in Los Angeles which resulted in findings in favor of the University. Moreover, in March 2000, officials at UCLA informed you that the Graduate Division considered the matter closed. The referral of your recent communication to UCLA, therefore, has been withdrawn/recalled. Be advised that no further action will be taken by UCLA or the Office of the President on your concerns and that the issues that were adjudicated and resolved over 10 years ago will not be re-visited.
Sincerely,
John Lohse
Director of Investigations
University of California
Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
From: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Date: April 13, 2010 9:47:24 AM PDT
To: Marguerite Carter <marguerite.carter@ucop.edu>
Subject: Fwd: UCLA
Dear Meg,
Now I trust my termination (and the facts and UCLA faculty statements it generated) gives you a much clearer idea of the function the Office there (and your duties within).
Thanks again for trying to do what you initially perceived was your work at the Office.
I'll close with something I wrote on the website: Silence is, after all, an activity of immense effect, and of immense long-term consequences.
Sincerely,
Tom Wilde
[Forwarded message from John Lohse, above, deleted]
From: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Date: April 14, 2010 9:36:15 AM PDT
To: vanessa.cordero@ucop.edu
Cc: teresa.alvarez@ucop.edu, Marguerite Carter <marguerite.carter@ucop.edu>, luanna.putney@ucop.edu, linda.buffett@ucop.edu, amelia.regacho@ucop.edu, maria.cornejo@ucop.edu, matthew.hicks@ucop.edu
Subject: UCLA
Dear Vanessa,
The message to you (and only incidentally to me) from John Lohse [below] openly demonstrates his complete contempt for facts, the University's own Codes of Conduct, elementary human ethics, and education itself. His message also tells you his primary function is to shield the University of California, regardless of facts and ethics.
Once your Office of Ethics, Compliance & Audit Services attaches an expiration date to these crucial facts and the University's academic and ethical principles, your workplace is thereby requiring you and your colleagues to leave behind your own ethical principles when you enter this Office of Ethics (in the usual Orwellian fashion).
And as I mentioned in my email to Marguerite Carter [below], your and your colleagues' silence in this case is an activity of immense, and immensely damaging, effect on the University, and of immense, and immensely damaging, long-term consequences for the public supporting the University of California.
It's not easy (especially in these harsh economic times), but were you to speak out on this case in the name the ethical principles you were hired to exercise, I believe you'd find strong support from across the nation (and likely beyond). Certainly these facts will solidly support your standing on your own ethical principles in this extremely important UCLA student termination.
And again, I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have on this case.
Please feel free to circulate this email if you wish.
Sincerely,
Tom Wilde
[contact information deleted]
ucla-weeding101.info
Ps. You might find it interesting that currently the three major search engines--Google, Bing, Yahoo--all put this website at the top of the first page of (quite a few) results when "unethical student termination" is typed into their search boxes (no need to include a school name or student level). Or perhaps do a Google search with simply: "unethical" and "UCLA"
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Date: April 13, 2010 9:47:24 AM PDT
To: Marguerite Carter <marguerite.carter@ucop.edu>
Subject: Fwd: UCLA
Dear Meg,
Now I trust my termination (and the facts and UCLA faculty statements it generated) gives you a much clearer idea of the function the Office there (and your duties within).
Thanks again for trying to do what you initially perceived was your work at the Office.
I'll close with something I wrote on the website: Silence is, after all, an activity of immense effect, and of immense long-term consequences.
Sincerely,
Tom Wilde
Begin forwarded message:
From: John Lohse <John.Lohse@ucop.edu>
Date: April 13, 2010 9:14:59 AM PDT
To: Tom Wilde <email address deleted>
Cc: "Cormier, Bill" <bcormier@capnet.ucla.edu>, Sheryl Vacca <Sheryl.Vacca@ucop.edu>, Lynda Hilliard <Lynda.Hilliard@ucop.edu>, Luanna Putney <Luanna.Putney@ucop.edu>, "Cataldo, Peter" <Peter.Cataldo@ucsf.edu>, Marguerite Carter <Marguerite.Carter@ucop.edu>, Claudia White <Claudia.White@ucop.edu>, Teresa Alvarez <Teresa.Alvarez@ucop.edu>, Matthew Hicks <Matthew.Hicks@ucop.edu>
Subject: RE: UCLA
Dear Mr. Wilde:
You had been previously advised by the Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services that your recent communication regarding your termination from UCLA’s Graduate Program would be referred to UCLA for handling. UCLA has informed this Office that your complaints were the subject of protracted litigation in Superior Court and the Court of Appeals in Los Angeles which resulted in findings in favor of the University. Moreover, in March 2000, officials at UCLA informed you that the Graduate Division considered the matter closed. The referral of your recent communication to UCLA, therefore, has been withdrawn/recalled. Be advised that no further action will be taken by UCLA or the Office of the President on your concerns and that the issues that were adjudicated and resolved over 10 years ago will not be re-visited.
Sincerely,
John Lohse
Director of Investigations
University of California
Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
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