Steve Goddard, dean of CLAS at U of Iowa, conducted a town hall for faculty and staff on 6/1 in which he dismissed concerns of women and POC employees, gave 0 answers as to how faculty will be kept safe, and derided TAs for belonging to a union. Video: https://t.co/68GhbR3JAs
Email from @uiowa admin outlines the number of Iowa students who need to self-report for covid symtoms in a given class before the class will be approved to go online. Spoiler alert: it's 20%.
For those of you keeping score at home: @uiowa just created a new admin position with a salary of $439k shortly after firing fifteen 45k ay lecturers to save on money. https://t.co/TqqPKEHYGT
University of Iowa provost steps aside to become 'special assistant,' per settlement;
Montse Fuentes will continue earning $439,000 --https://t.co/tbXoaWtojR
Just a reminder that Steve Goddard collects a massive salary, fires low-paid teachers, promises to fire more, insists on a return to f2f classes because of money, and tells the people he's terrorized to find a therapist.
https://t.co/WYhlvcYN1v
.@uiowa Dean Goddard threatens faculty, saying people who are too worried to come back to campus because of COVID-19 should be worried about their jobs.
Word on the street is that Steve Goddard is on a firing rampage, little birds also say he is still mostly targeting women in these firings. This even after the Council on the Status of Women raised concerns over his preference to fire women.