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UCLA Faculty Documents
The document below left was written by my graduate faculty advisor and my division head: UCLA-GSEIS; Blurton-Jones & Val Rust Memo. This memo was their first formal statement on my termination, addressed to the Graduate School of Education. Therein, these faculty members recommend my immediate reinstatement, as the fall quarter was then in progress: "[W]e would like to recommend that Tom be allowed to continue in the program for Fall Quarter, 1996."
"We hope you will honor our request and allow him to enroll this term."
The two-page document below center and right was again written by my graduate faculty advisor and my division head: UCLA Ombudsman (p.1) / UCLA Ombudsman (p.2). This letter to the UCLA Ombudsman was cc'd to the Department Chair of the Graduate School of Education. The following paragraph in this letter sheds much light on how the university makes its crucial decision to terminate a student:
"More importantly, neither 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."
And here again my advisor and my division head were requesting my reinstatement along with a review of the termination decision.
Still more questions are raised by these documents on how the university operates, since these UCLA faculty members' recommendations and requests did not result in my reinstatement or a review of the termination decision.
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