For months, I tried to resolve this privately with University administration, without success.
Today, this website went public and the University of Alberta Board of Governors were informed. Below is the email sent to the Board executive.
This email is sent to the Chairs and Vice-chairs of the following UAlberta Board of Governor’s subcommittees:
- Governance
- Human Resources and Compensation
- Learning, Research and Student Experience
- Reputation and Public Affairs
Please be advised that I and thousands of students were the victim of negligence, malice, and misconduct by several university administrators, up to and including the former VP Academic. Their actions included the intentional decimation of my academic career. It took years for the University to finally provide documents. For the past few months, I have attempted to quietly address the issues with the current administration. No luck. The current administration is committed to covering up the wrongdoing of previous administrators.
I am committed to bettering the University of Alberta, its students, its honest faculty and staff, and society. Evidently, that will only happen through the public disgrace of university administration, again. The website is now public.
Again? In 2018, the University grudgingly admitted wrongdoing after it became public that Montemagno (a high-profile researcher) improperly hired his daughter and her husband to work in his research lab. The Montemagno debacle was a major news story. Now, it is public that Tykwinski (new department Chair) replaced two award-winning full-time instructors with seven part-time instructors. Tykwinski gave critical teaching positions to the former students and sexual partners of research faculty. None of the new instructors had experience teaching large lecture classes. There was no job posting, no call for applications, no interviews. Textbook patronage. This resulted in the abysmal instruction of thousands of students and the University losing millions of dollars in tuition and grant revenue. Tykwinski also apparently received a complaint about me — I only learned of this years later. Instead of properly investigating the complaint, Tykwinski summarily terminated me and then lied to the AASUA about the existence of the complaint. To justify my unexpected departure, Tykwinski sent a email to the entire department (hundreds of people), explaining that my departure was for cause. Textbook defamation. Tykwinski decimated my career to cover-up his wrongdoing. Dew (VP Academic) failed to appoint an independent investigator to investigate Tykwinski, and then aggressively covered-up Tykwinski‘s wrongdoing. Tykwinski’s wrongdoing is magnitudes greater than Montemagno.
The University has threatened legal action if I went public with this information. So much for the University’s commitment after the Montemagno debacle: “… to ensure a situation like this doesn’t happen again, …. The University commits to openness, fairness, and transparency with future complaints.”
My hope is that the Board has the integrity and will to correct egregious wrongdoing by UAlberta administrators. If the Board is open to restorative justice, the Board is encouraged to propose a restorative justice plan.