Thursday, August 02, 2007
Going Ghetto
It is perhaps ironic, certainly tragic, that New College of California Dean of Graduate Psychology, Dr. Linda James Myers, and her protege Pamela Gilmore, have chosen to "go ghetto" over the college accrediting agency's criticism of their shoddy academic and financial integrity. Indeed, we have Ms. Gilmore to thank for pointing us toward the larger fraud perpetrated by Dr. Myers.
That fraud, to put it bluntly, is in creating a criminal scam within New College targeting poorly-educated blacks in the Bay Area as victims. By luring them into the Afro-centric programs designed to fleece these students Dr. Myers betrays everything the champions of the Civil Rights Movement fought and died for. But in terms of the present accreditation crisis at New College, it is the race-based con devised by Dr. Myers that is most likely to bring the walls of the school tumbling down.
In a complaint filed in California Superior Court in April of this year, Dr. Rebecca Bauknight -- former assistant dean of the graduate psychology department at New College -- charged that in 2005 she "was concerned that Dean Myers' lack of attention to existing programs would jeopardize New College's ability to meet accreditation requirements and licensing board mandates." After filing a racial discrimination complaint with President Hamilton and trustee Gabel in October 2006, Dr. Bauknight was relieved of her duties without any investigation into her complaint against Dr. Myers. Her prescient remarks have apparently now come back to haunt them.
That fraud, to put it bluntly, is in creating a criminal scam within New College targeting poorly-educated blacks in the Bay Area as victims. By luring them into the Afro-centric programs designed to fleece these students Dr. Myers betrays everything the champions of the Civil Rights Movement fought and died for. But in terms of the present accreditation crisis at New College, it is the race-based con devised by Dr. Myers that is most likely to bring the walls of the school tumbling down.
In a complaint filed in California Superior Court in April of this year, Dr. Rebecca Bauknight -- former assistant dean of the graduate psychology department at New College -- charged that in 2005 she "was concerned that Dean Myers' lack of attention to existing programs would jeopardize New College's ability to meet accreditation requirements and licensing board mandates." After filing a racial discrimination complaint with President Hamilton and trustee Gabel in October 2006, Dr. Bauknight was relieved of her duties without any investigation into her complaint against Dr. Myers. Her prescient remarks have apparently now come back to haunt them.
