Maybe –just maybe–I can understand a $400 fee for studio art students as part of an overall tuition and fee hike—- but $100 for art history majors?
Meanwhile, the Rhino’s John Hammer on fired UNCG employee Lyda Carpen’s efforts to get her job back:
Carpen, who is the supervisor who was charged with five felonies for signing inaccurate time cards for two photographers who worked for the department, will appear before a three-person panel as part of the formal grievance process concerning the appeal of her dismissal.
….Carpen, who is the supervisor who was charged with five felonies for signing inaccurate time cards for two photographers who worked for the department, will appear before a three-person panel as part of the formal grievance process concerning the appeal of her dismissal.
…Carpen is going through the appeal process to get her job back, but it appears to be going from the absurd to the more absurd. The three-person panel makes a recommendation to the chancellor or her designee, and then the chancellor or her designee decides whether to follow the recommendation of the three-member panel or not. Carpen is not allowed to be represented by an attorney in front of the panel.
UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady has made her opinion on this case very publicly known. She agreed with the decision not just to fire Carpen, but to have her arrested and charged with multiple felonies, and Brady publicly defended both those decisions. The courts didn’t see enough evidence of criminal wrong doing to even consider the case, but Brady did.
It is absurd for Brady – who clearly has made up her mind – to make the decision on Carpen.
Hammer reports Carpen’s attorney says Chancellor Brady “is the last person on the UNCG campus who should be making this decision.”
