Graduate Student Abuse
Welcome to www.graduatestudentabuse.org. This is a website that has been set up in response to the events that have transpired over time in the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, specifically the way in which the faculty of that department has interacted throughout the years with its graduate students. This website focuses primarily on two things:
This report is divided into eight sections, and includes general background information (both with regard to academe as a whole and to UCLA and its Slavic Department in particular), an explication of specific events, and original source documentation such as the first Eight-Year Review report on the UCLA Slavic Department, email communications, letters, etc. The latter half of this report provides an analysis of these events, places them into a larger and different interpretive context, and concludes with a series of suggestions to bring about change.
These eight sections can be read as either HTML files or PDF files. Section IV, which provides original source documentation, is subdivided into ten sections, IV-A through IV-J. In addition, the complete report is also available as a single PDF file for those who would prefer to download it in its entirety. There is also a section for suggested links, including a link to an open blog for this website.
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I |
Introduction: What is This Report About and Why is It Necessary? |
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II |
Contextualization of the Problem |
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III |
Explanation of the Documents |
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IV-A |
Eight-Year Review Report on the UCLA Slavic Department |
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IV-B |
Annotated Copy of the Eight-Year Review Report |
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IV-C |
Letter from Faculty Head of the Internal Review Team |
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IV-D |
Initial Report from Internal Review Team's Graduate Student Representative |
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IV-E |
Email Communications from Internal Review Team's Graduate Student Representative |
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IV-F |
Email from Internal Review Team's Graduate Student Representative Concerning Distribution of Eight-Year Review |
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IV-G |
UCLA Slavic Dept. Response to Eight-Year Review Report |
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IV-H |
UCLA Slavic Dept. Graduate Student Handbook |
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IV-I |
Departmental Internal Report |
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IV-J |
Resolution Passed by the Graduate Students Association |
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V |
Michael Heim and the Consequences of His Actions |
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VI |
System "Breakdowns"; Actions of Individuals/Entities |
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VII |
Conclusions: What the Documents Tell Us about the System and Academe |
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VIII |
Anticipated Reactions and Final Recommendations |
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I-VIII |
[Download the complete report as a single PDF file] |
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Download Acrobat http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html#Readers |
Links
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Blog for www.graduatestudentabuse.org |
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