Chancellor Brady,
Recently you sent out an email
inviting those with questions and concerns about the polices of UNCG's
secondary employment and conflict of interest information. Although
this is an open forum to be held in Room 114 of the School of Education
on 11/17/2014 @ 2pm, there are still many concerns on campus from my peers.
As
a general SPA/EPA employee - how are we even able to ask questions
without being reprimanded? There are plenty of legitimate questions to
be asked, but if employees are scared of their jobs being at jeopardy by
asking these questions, why would the questions be asked? Only tenured
faculty feel comfortable asking the questions, thus the staff who are
probably most affected by these policies are not able/comfortable to ask
them. Heck, I am reaching out to you but using a fake email address
because I am too afraid myself of asking with my real name/address...
The
way the last few weeks have been handled have terrified your employees
across campus, and have become the butt of many jokes across the
community. Is this what you want for UNCG? To be the place where
people are afraid to come to work? To be the University that people are
ashamed to have graduated from it, or be the laughing punch-line of
jokes? Does this define contributing to "Public Good?" Is this the best way to "Do Something Bigger Altogether?"
I
feel for the employees who were terminated, and maybe the termination
was just, but how the rest of the process was handled is a complete
failure and not ethical. The administration has handled this entire
course of events unfortunately, and the time and resources that have
been wasted to hold public forums, create announcements, and back-track
on previous statements have taken so many man-hours (I'm estimating
approximately 500, at the minimum so far). These hours and resources
cannot be regained, but making the charges go away would help with the
hostile and terrifying environment on campus.
Please
stop giving the statement that UNCG has nothing to do with the charges,
or that the charges cannot be dropped at this point. Simple civics
breaks those rules. Sure the DA pursued the charges, only because
somebody (let's just say UNCG Police) brought them and requested the
charges. UNCG Police were alerted by somebody or group to investigate
these charges (i.e. Linda Brady, Paul Mason, Sherri MacCheyne, etc), so
it's very simple... Whomever requested they there were the "victim" to
retract their charge with the DA, this would all go away, or at least
get out of the papers.
If the goal was to get rid of the
employees, your administration has done so, and probably have already
run off others (current or potential) due to the lack of trust or scare
tactics.
I do pray for the
entire staff, including the Administration and Board of Trustees, of
UNCG and hope things can settle soon so employees such as myself are no
longer afraid to ask simple general questions about policies without
being afraid they will jeopardize their jobs.
Regards and thanks for 2 minutes of your time-
Anonymous
