I tell the Dean the meeting is not necessary

On Thursday the 10th I got the following letter from the Dean's office. I had asked what was the purpose of the meeting which I had been scheduled to attend, and the office assistant answered as follows:

In response to your request, the Faculty of Education deans have decided to meet with you to discuss a number of concerns and/or complaints from faculty members and students regarding your behaviour in your Education classes.

The meeting is scheduled for 3:00 PM on Thursday, Nov. 17. Please report to the Faculty of Education Reception area in Graham Hall.

I considered this over the weekend, and on Tuesday the 15th I gave her my reply:

Please let the Dean know that I am aware of the whispering campaign that has been going on behind my back, and I appreciate his concern. However, I have decided that at this time my best course of action is to simply ignore it and continue attending classes, doing my assignments, and focussing on my main goal of getting through the program. So let the Dean know that for my sake, a meeting at this time is not necessary.

 

 

The Dean's office responded later  the same day:

 

Dear Marvin Green,

The Faculty of Education Deans feel that there are some serious issues regarding your behaviour in class that need to be addressed. Therefore, they expect to see you at the scheduled meeting. Failure to appear will result in further action under The University of Winnipeg Non-academic Misconduct Policy. This process can proceed with or without your attendance.

Sincerely,

Christy

 

It seems the Dean was serious about having me attend the meeting. More to follow...

In which I am invited to a meeting

Until last week, I was a post-degree student in the two-year Teacher Certification program at the University of Winnipeg. I'm not there any more, and I'd like to tell why. Unfortunately, because matters haven't been altogether settled, it's not in my interest to say everything that I'd like to say. But I still really want to tell my story. I put up a short note on my other blog, Why I hate physics , but I'd kind of like to stick to physics on that blog. (Other than the occasional rant about the Jews.) So I've set up a separate blog for my U of W stuff. Which is this blog right here.

(Some of my links are getting messed up in ways that I don't understand. If you can't get to my physics blog with the previous link, try this one. )

How do I tell my story without giving away too much? It occurs to me that the correspondence over the last two months with the University would make pretty good reading. It's all on the record, and there's nothing in it that the University doesn't know about already. It all began the second week in November when I got a phone call from the Dean's office. The secretary wanted to set up a time for a meeting, which I did. I then asked her what was the purpose of the meeting. I don't remember whether she had an answer, but in any case I told her I would require to be notified in writing before I would attend. On the 10th of November I received the following message:

Dear Mr. Green,

In response to your request, the Faculty of Education deans have decided to meet with you to discuss a number of concerns and/or complaints from faculty members and students regarding your behaviour in your Education classes.

The meeting is scheduled for 3:00 PM on Thursday, Nov. 17. Please report to the Faculty of Education Reception area in Graham Hall.

Sincerely,

Christy

Christy Campbell
Office Assistant
Faculty of Education
University of Winnipeg
786-9733

And that's pretty much how it got started. For now, let's leave it there, and I'll post each item of subsequent correspondence more or less according to when the actual messages were exchanged in real time. So in theory, if I stick to the plan, we'll get to the present state in about two months.

Let's see what happens.