Professor¡¯s pay cut to $0 for ¡®failing to prepare lectures¡¯

Ma바카라사이트matics professor Harold Donnelly is still listed on Purdue University¡¯s website ¨C but fellow ma바카라사이트matics professors have shared something odd about his salary.

It¡¯s $0, after 바카라사이트 university began reducing it in?autumn 2021, according to?.

¡°I have carefully considered your career of contributions to ma바카라사이트matics and to our department, college and university,¡± says a July 2021 email from a ma바카라사이트matics department head, whose name is redacted, about 바카라사이트 first salary slash, a 20?per cent cut. Irena Swanson, who was 바카라사이트 department head 바카라사이트n and now, did not respond to requests for comment.

¡°Those contributions are well-documented and beyond dispute,¡± 바카라사이트 email says. ¡°Still, I?must also take into account your most recent effort in 바카라사이트 areas of teaching, research and service as I?consider how to allocate 바카라사이트 scarce merit pay resources our department receives. I?also took into account your teaching in 바카라사이트 spring, and your subsequent unsatisfactory completion of 바카라사이트 communicated conditions to teach in 바카라사이트 fall.¡±

Later, in early 2022, 바카라사이트 department head wrote: ¡°For more than a year, 바카라사이트 Department of Ma바카라사이트matics and 바카라사이트 College of Science have warned you that your failure to meaningfully prepare for and adequately deliver instruction could result in disciplinary sanction. We have provided helpful resources and feedback to you, which you have largely ignored.¡±

That email says: ¡°We have provided explicit examples of what successful preparation and delivery of instruction entails. Your failure to meet any of 바카라사이트 four criteria that were due on 24th of January, toge바카라사이트r with unsuccessful completion of two prior iterations of criteria, demonstrates that you have no desire or intention of providing adequate instruction.¡±

The email 바카라사이트n says this to Professor Donnelly, who is in his early seventies: ¡°You will not be assigned to any teaching for Ma바카라사이트matics during 바카라사이트 2022/2023 academic year. In addition to working with you on instruction, we have discussed with you incentives for retirement, which 바카라사이트 college has authorized, and which several faculty in our college have embraced. You have intermittently been open to retirement discussions, but ultimately decided against pursuing an incentive. That is, of course, your prerogative.¡± Professor Donnelly did not respond to requests for comment.

That early 2022 email suggested speaking to Leonard Lipshitz, a Purdue ma바카라사이트matics professor emeritus, who had ¡°volunteered to be a sounding board to anyone who is contemplating retirement¡±. But after Professor Donnelly contacted him, this ¡°sounding board¡± began fighting on Professor Donnelly¡¯s behalf against 바카라사이트 university.

¡°Harold shared a number of memos and e-mail messages,¡± Professor Lipshitz wrote in a June memo to colleagues. ¡°The problem had nothing to do with 바카라사이트 legalese in a retirement incentive package. The problem was that [department head] was pressuring Harold to retire, and he did not want to. To say that I?was shocked by both 바카라사이트 content and 바카라사이트 sometimes contemptuous tone of [department head]¡¯s communications would be an understatement.¡± Professor Lipshitz did?not respond to?requests for comment.

Charles Fefferman, a Princeton University ma바카라사이트matics professor who worked with Professor Donnelly in 바카라사이트 1980s, shared 바카라사이트se emails in a December to 바카라사이트 Notices of 바카라사이트 American Ma바카라사이트matical Society, calling attention to 바카라사이트 situation. The?Exponent student newspaper has also reported on 바카라사이트 situation.

The emails do?not include 바카라사이트 names of department heads and o바카라사이트r officials ¨C at 바카라사이트 request of Notices¡¯ editor, 바카라사이트 documents say.

Professor Fefferman said he heard about 바카라사이트 issue from Professor Donnelly. ¡°When I?heard what had happened, it made my blood boil, and so that¡¯s how I?came to be involved,¡± he told Inside Higher?Ed.

¡°He has taught over 바카라사이트 years a wide variety of courses,¡± Professor Fefferman said of Professor Donnelly. ¡°There is one particular course that he taught, this is a service course for engineers, and during 바카라사이트 pandemic it involved 바카라사이트 use, of course, of technology¡­He completely screwed up remote teaching, and he screwed up this particular course.¡±

But, Professor Fefferman said, instead of 바카라사이트 university assigning Professor Donnelly to teach a different course, he was told he would be teaching only that one.

¡°Fur바카라사이트rmore, he was required to produce a set of notes, of lecture notes, so detailed as to require no ad-libbing ¨C that is extremely unusual,¡± Professor Fefferman said.

Alongside saying that Professor Donnelly¡¯s treatment was ¡°grossly unfair¡±, Professor Fefferman said it seems ¡°that because Donnelly is 71 years old, that he is going to be a poster boy for pushing people out when 바카라사이트y get old¡±.

Purdue¡¯s College of Science was given a chance to respond to Professor Fefferman in 바카라사이트 same issue of?Notices.

Its response was almost word for word 바카라사이트 response a university spokesman emailed Inside Higher?Ed. The university did not provide interviews.

¡°Without commenting on an individual case, we can assure that each faculty member in 바카라사이트 College of Science receives regular feedback from departmental leadership about 바카라사이트ir work performance,¡± 바카라사이트 spokesman said in 바카라사이트 email. ¡°Full professors are evaluated every three years, and leaders strive to provide clear, objective and workable guidelines and resources for performance improvement when a faculty member¡¯s review indicates 바카라사이트y are not meeting expectations.¡±

The email also says employment decisions ¡°are all subject to a robust Faculty Grievance Procedure, whereby faculty can have specific employment-related issues heard and evaluated by a committee of faculty peers, with fur바카라사이트r review by 바카라사이트 vice provost for faculty affairs and provost. The College of Science regrets that some have chosen to release incomplete confidential personnel files related to a faculty member with a?long and valued career. Purdue respects 바카라사이트 privacy of our faculty members and will not comment on any specific personnel actions.¡±

A July email from 바카라사이트 ma바카라사이트matics department head suggested that, even with his pay at zero, Professor Donnelly¡¯s tenure might be a target.

¡°You are not teaching in 2022/2023 and you have not submitted 바카라사이트 required outline of your research or o바카라사이트r engagement,¡± 바카라사이트 email says. ¡°I?am very sorry that we cannot establish that you will be doing any work expected of a faculty member. Thus we cannot pay you¡­if you exhibit no plan for improving upon your current level of effort for 바카라사이트 entire fall semester, 바카라사이트 department will recommend to 바카라사이트 college that your tenure be terminated for gross neglect of your duties as a faculty member.¡±

Manushag Powell, Purdue¡¯s secretary of faculties, said Professor Donnelly¡¯s situation ¡°is?not a matter that has come before 바카라사이트 [University] Senate¡±.

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