[Vision2020] UI Settles With Ex-Workers

[Tom Hansen]

Nick Gier stated:

"Time and time again we have found that the UI administration always
supports its deans and other middle managers rather than listening to
legitimate faculty complaints."

Shades of Elisabethiz Zinzer, Nick.  I remember a number of years ago when
Zinser upset the faculty so much that a group of Computer Science profs
packed their bags and took an early vacation . . . in the middle of the
spring semester.

Footnote:  Since July of 2008, when I was laid off, there have been no new
faces at UI Faclities.  The hallway echoes simply get more pronounced.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


> Greetings:
>
> The faculty union was not directly involved in this case, but I was in
> communication with both Hass and his attorney. I am so glad that the
> Hasses finally got some justice.
>
> A number of faculty members tried for months to get the UI administration
> to discipline Maki, but he was demoted only after an audit demonstrated
> that his spin-off companies had indeed benefited from UI research.  We
> urged UI administrators to institute a post-tenure review of Maki, but
> they refused.
>
> Time and time again we have found that the UI administration always
> supports its deans and other middle managers rather than listening to
> legitimate faculty complaints.
>
> In our own whistleblower case I wish that the UI had publicly apologized
> for the abuse that our grievant went through before she received her
> settlement.
>
> Nick Gier, President, Higher Education Council, Idaho Federation of
> Teachers