 |
 |
 |
 |
MONTHLY UPDATE
UPDATE CONTD 1
UPDATE CONTD 2
UPDATE CONTD 3
UPDATE CONTD 4
UPDATE CONTD 5
UPDATE CONTD 6
UPDATE CONTD 7
UPDATE CONTD 8
STUDENTS SPEAK
QUALIFICATIONS
EVALUATION FORM
LINKS
MEMOS
May 23 1994
Sept 6 1995
March 20 1997
April 3 1997
Jan 5 1998
March 31 1998
Sept 15 1999
May 17 2000
Sept 11 2000
Oct 16 2000
Nov 14 2000
Nov 15 2000
Feb 10 2001
March 15 2001
March 19 2001
June 9 2003
April 17 2006
Sept 18 2006
Sept 27 2006
Oct 23 2006
Dec 9 2007
Dec 16 2007
| CORRUPTION AT LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE |
) PRESIDENTIAL SABBATICAL AT CREEDMOOR PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY ************************************************ THIS JUST IN! Please see UPDATE CONTD 8 for our New York State Freedom of Information Law expose' of LaGuardia's remedial math hoax. ************************************************ LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, is a scandal waiting to explode. It is a pseudo-educational institution strangled by administrative corruption, lack of academic standards, cronyism, and widespread incompetence at all levels. You may select any page of this site to view by clicking on choices in the blue menu on the left side of every page. LAGUARDIACORRUPTION.COM is edited by a small group of current and former LaGuardia Profs and is dedicated to exposing the ethically bankrupt leadership that has reduced the College to a tragic hoax and disgrace to higher education for the past 25 years. You are invited to see the deleterious effect of administrative corruption on education and, in particular, how cronyism, rampant grade inflation, fraudulent course material and fraudulent remedial exams have rendered the Mathematics and English Departments dysfunctional. We present the evidence; you be the judge. By giving the views of Prof. Martin Millman, as well as providing a voice for other faculty, students and interested parties, we hope to one day achieve the academic integrity envisioned by the College's founders back in 1971. LaGuardia attracts an ethnically diverse and multi-national, largely minority, student body that deserves nothing less. Regrettably, instead of receiving the kind of education that would improve their lives, these students are in reality being victimized by a system that delivers little education and a practically worthless diploma. More specifically, the many examples of corruption cited here may be summarized into the following seven main areas of concern. We may call these HOW TO RUIN A COLLEGE IN SEVEN EASY STEPS: 1. A corrupt College P&B (Personnel and Budget) Committee, whose members routinely rig tenure and promotion decisions by mutually approving each other's respective cronies, often favoring documented incompetents over people of real merit. This unethical practice, over the years, results in a school stocked with bad instructors (who are tenured for life) and, inevitably, significantly reduces the quality of education. LaGuardia's sordid history of firing instructors of extraordinary talent while tenuring and promoting incompetent cronies is a major cause of its demeaning reputation as "Crayola U." The chaos that passes for education is criminal. LaGuardia is rife with examples: The Full Prof. of Mathematics who has no knowledge of Calculus, the Prof. of Computer Science who never attends his lab classes. Another incredible example, perhaps unique in the annals of higher education, is the Prof. of Mathematics, formerly fired for incompetence, who returned to become Chair of the department! The ultimate victims of this corruption are, of course, the students. One entering student out of every four eventually (after 8 years) receives a diploma, while the other three never graduate. The retention rate is abominable; only 45% of entering freshmen remain after two years. 2. Racial-bloc voting in departmental elections. Election results are frequently determined by candidates' ethnicity rather than by their competence or qualifications for the job. Moreover, such unethically elected Chairs will often reward racist voters by supporting them for retention, tenure and/or promotion, no matter if their teaching skills are weak or even non-existent. 3. Department Chair multi-term dynasties (each term of office is three years in length) with their accompanying cronyism. These dynasties have resulted in extreme degradation of academic standards through the promotion of less-than-optimal (or frankly incompetent) faculty to leadership roles and the firing or non-promotion of superior people who vote the "wrong" way. The 50% failure rate on the pre-Compass CUNY Math Remedial Exam and 70% failure rate on the pre-Compass CUNY English Remedial Exam (after students take a year of remediation) is but one of many illustrations of the effect of this mode of corruption. 4. Rampant grade inflation throughout the college. Click on the MEMO Sept 18 2006 for a particularly egregious example. 5. The recent introduction of "Compass" remedial exams in English and Mathematics that are being passed by illiterate and innumerate students. The score required to pass the math exam (and thereby be allowed to take college-level math courses) at LaGuardia is 30 (out of a possible 100). The average score required to pass this ACT standardized remedial math exam at over 1000 colleges across the country is 45! LaGuardia's lack of educational standards here is obvious, but the effects run deep. See UPDATE CONTD 6, item #94 and UPDATE CONTD 8, ITEM #117. 6. Twenty years of blatant anti-Semitism in the Mathematics Department. During the years 1981-2001, Prof. M. Millman was the only Jewish member of the Department allowed to come up for the tenure decision. Out of 14 Math Faculty granted tenure during 1981-2001, Millman was the only Jew. His record was too outstanding and well-known to be denied tenure. During this period, the Jewish population of the Department dropped from 35% to 9%, despite the fact that roughly half the job applicants are Jewish. The Department currently has two Jewish members out of 26 full-time people. Millman has been at LaGuardia since 1988 as Assistant Prof. and has never been promoted, despite having the best publication record in the department (he has co-authored papers with J.B. Keller of Stanford University, who is widely regarded as the world's foremost applied mathematician), an outstanding record of College contributions, and excellent peer and student evaluations. Click on the MEMO March 15 2001 for details. 7. An incompetent, corrupt and paranoid Administration. The President's performance has been severely criticized by the Faculty union chapter. The Faculty union newspaper recenty (9/2005) reported that President Mellow was caught lying to an arbitrator in the case of a Faculty member's appeal of his non-promotion. The arbitrator found Mellow guilty of blocking all promotions in the Computer Information Systems Dept. for five successive years simply because she disliked the chairman of that unfortunate Dept! (See UPDATE CONTD 2, item # 56). Administrators have lied to the NY Post by denying the existence of problems 1 - 7 above and labeling Prof. Millman and others as cranks. In reality, the executive Administration is well-aware that these problems exist but is unable or unwilling to deal with them. LaGuardia's leaders demand mediocrity and obedience from an intimidated faculty and fear creativity and excellence as threats to their tenuous grip on power. Those who offer constructive criticism or who otherwise "make waves" by throwing light on corrupt practices are ostracized as disloyal members of the workforce. The faculty and staff maintain their silence under threats of non-retention, non-tenuring and non-promotion. ***************** TABLE OF CONTENTS ***************** I. PROF. MARTIN MILLMAN'S MEMOS By reading a selection of anti-corruption memos that Prof. Martin Millman has written to the LaGuardia Faculty and Administration you will become at once educated, nauseated, enlightened and shocked concerning the corrupt practices going on behind-the-scenes at LaGuardia. To access these, click on MEMOS in the dark blue menu area on the upper left-hand side of this page. II. MESSAGE BOARD Post your uncensored opinion on any LaGuardia issue by clicking on MESSAGE BOARD in the silver box, just above the dark blue menu area at the upper left. Once at the Message Board, click on MSGLIST to view the 10 most recent posts. Click on NEXT and PREV to view all the posts contributed by interested visitors. III. GUESTBOOK Sign or view the Guestbook and contribute an uncensored comment if you wish. Just click on SIGN GUESTBOOK or VIEW GUESTBOOK at the bottom of every page. In the Guestbook use the NEXT and PREV buttons to view all the comments posted by previous signees. Click on FILL FORM to write a comment, then click on SUBMIT to submit your comment. The Guestbook appears to have overtaken the Message Board as the preferred place to post comments. IV. INSTRUCTOR/COURSE EVALUATION FORM If you are a LaGuardia student, you may fill out an INSTRUCTOR/COURSE EVALUATION FORM online at any time. Due to cyberspace limitations, the form is presently restricted to Mathematics Department courses only. In the near future, we hope to expand this feature to include all departments. To access the form, click on EVALUATION FORM in the menu area. The reprehensible practice of political cronyism at LaGuardia is the primary reason for the existence of so many incompetent faculty and the consequent misery they bring to the lives of students. By filling out a form, you alert your fellow students to the worst (and the best) faculty LaGuardia has to offer. The tabulated results of the faculty-evaluation forms students fill out at LaGuardia are never seen by the students. Nor are they used in the unscrupulous tenure and promotion process for Faculty. Civilized colleges allow their student governments to conduct faculty-evaluation surveys and make the results available to students. N.Y.U., for example, publishes them on the Web. Why does this process not exist at LaGuardia? The College Administration realizes that if they did allow it, there would suddenly be large numbers of instructors whose courses would never again be registered for! V. SUMMARY OF INSTRUCTOR RATINGS This page will come into existence when a statistically significant sample of instructor/course evaluation forms has been submitted. VI. MONTHLY UPDATE Be sure to click on MONTHLY UPDATE and its continuations regularly to check out ongoing corruption at LaGuardia. The items are sorted with the most recent at the bottom of the list. Faculty and students may contribute to MONTHLY UPDATE by E-mailing us at the address given at the bottom of every page. You will find the most current news in UPDATE CONTD 7. VII. STUDENTS SPEAK OUT The page entitled STUDENTS SPEAK OUT contains a brief selection of letters written by students who are fed up with the demeaning treatment they receive at Laguardia and with the lack of academic standards and the epidemic of cheating. Click on STUDENTS SPEAK. The most recent contributions appear at the top of the list. Students wishing to contribute to this page should E-mail us at the address given at the bottom of every page. VIII. QUALIFICATIONS This page outlines Prof. Martin Millman's outstanding credentials for the promotion that the corrupt LaGuardia P&B Committee has denied him for the past nine years. Many similar cases have occured over the years, one of the most disturbing being in the CIS Department this year (2005). Here, an excellent faculty member has been turned down for promotion for the fifth consecutive year for despicable, purely political reasons described in UPDATE CONTD 3. IX. LINKS Links to other websites prominent in the fight against corruption in higher education. *************** We hope you find your visit here enlightening. Together we can defeat the forces of corruption and stupidity and create the wonderful LaGuardia envisioned in 1970! *************** You may return to this page at any time by clicking on HOME at the top of the menu area of any page. *************** You may view the continuously updated visitor-count for any page of the site by scrolling to the bottom of that page. |
 Sign Guestbook |
 View Guestbook |
| Visitors: 178858 |