Hi MACers, PLZ answer a few questions for me ASAP,
BACKGROUND:
I’m having some problem with my university singling me out for some violations
of my 1st Amendment rights, academic freedom and making it more
difficult to do my job by restricting my ability to send email to more than one
initially and now 2 people maximum at a time. I also can not send an
email back to myself now. In August the admin stopped faculty and staff
from being able to post to the internal faculty and staff list and abolished
the faculty-only list entirely. My chair is too frightened to forward
anything for me because the university won’t give him any guidelines about
what they consider appropriate or what should be censored. FYI I sent out
an email to my own univ list telling folks if they were finding obstacles to
giving excellent student service (I refuse to use the word “customer”
as the admin does) to send a professional alternate plan and report to either
the faculty affairs senate rep or the non-academic staff alliance rep.
That is what the admin shut me down for.
PURPOSE: All
the administrators I’ve left phone messages for and sent emails have
failed to reply and the VP for Communications & Marketing has refused to
reply at all and refused to forward my messages about two organizational
meetings to the faculty and staff. So I am preparing a USPS, return receipt
letter for the president to get my full accessibility restored and I would like
to be able to at least characterize MACers experience in it, though of course I
will NOT mention you or your institution by name. No notice of any of
this was given to me or any of the faculty and staff. We just tried to
send messages and found we suddenly got error messages telling us we are “not
authorized.”
QUESTIONS:
Are you at a Traditionally White Institution or a HBCU?
Does your university have a faculty and or a faculty/staff
list and can individual faculty members post to it/use it to send things out to
the whole faculty/staff? Is there an approval process to do so? If
so what?
Have you heard of an individual faculty member being cut out
of email use or email accessibility limited? If so why, how & when?
Know Justice; Know Peace,
Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin
Professor of Communication
Media & Society Size Equity Expert
ASU FSA/AFT Co-VP for Faculty
AEJMC MAC Membership Chair
Alabama State University
915 S. Jackson St.
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271
(334) 229-6885
www.loveyourbodyloveyourself.vox.com
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With all my heart I want to
work with and for kind, competant, strong people who love and help me and I
they. Ashe!