Transparency State University

Looks like absolutely NO fall sports at all for everyone in SWAC.  I mean, we expected this but still.... .....let's not forget- this was going to be THE YEAR for HBCU sports to finally start attracting some amazing super talented sportsmen and sportswomen from PWI's.  We could have seen a re-surgence of our once proud legacy and dominance in sports.  Prior to PWI's actively recruiting minority players, HBCU's lead the way for sports dominance and proved to the world that we could take on the "best" and be better. And what happens to all our TSU scholar athletes and enrolment? https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/29351930/why-hbcus-again-become-serious-options-elite-basketball-prospects https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/black-athletes-should-leave-white-colleges/596629/ https://theconversation.com/star-player-who-expressed-interest-in-going-to-an-hbcu-may-shake-up-how-athletes-select-a-college-140195

We can't believe we are reporting even more SOPA drama.....but Dean Kieh has done a 180 degree turn and agreed to provide the Interim Chair election results.  After a SOPA-wide email from one of the SOPA Faculty Senators requesting the voting results, Dean Kieh agreed and turned over all the votes to the 3 departments.  Individually of course.  No idea why he either ignored or refused requests earlier. https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2020/07/update-on-musical-chairs-re-shuffling.html More surprises.  After less than 45 minutes from Dean K's email, the presumptive AJ Interim Chair choice- Dr. Drake rescinded her application due to new policy changes regarding earning extra money from grant work (Koch grant we theorize) as well as extra pay from being Forensics Lab Coordinator.  Seems that the Provost or President has a new rule they are trying to enforce- if you are a classified as an administrator (12 months) you cannot make extra money from grant wor...

An update on our post from June 19, 2020: https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2020/06/musical-chairs-re-shuffle-ongoing-at-tsu.html Looks like at least one Dean- Dean George Kieh has quietly announced 2 out of the 3 departments in SOPA- Administration of Justice and Political Science have new Interim Chairs- AJ has named Dr. Jasmine Drake (8th Chair in 12 years) and Political Science has named Dr. Rina Majumdar (3rd chair in 12 years). We say "quietly" because he hasn't emailed a SOPA-wide announcement for the 3 chairs, but is emailing each department separately.  Normally, there is a SOPA-wide email for chair announcements to have full transparency.  Why the secrecy? We wish both the incoming Chairs much luck especially since one of them has NEVER taught a single undergraduate class and will likely be wholly unprepared to understand our undergraduate needs especially in the Age of the Coronavirus and the other Interim Chair has a Ph.D. in Chemistry which we fi...

In a meeting last year in 2019 February we wrote about previously: https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-center-for-justice-research-stands.html Provost Harris insisted that SOPA is part of CJR and vice versa. But yet at the meeting at least 2 faculty members informed the provost that they were being denied opportunities to conduct research with CJR. It has so divided up one department -Administration of Justice -that rumors are there has been at least one lawsuit inside of AJ indirectly based on the moneyed influence due to Director Henderson.  There are rumors of 3 more lawsuits, 2 pending and 1 already filed possibly due in part to the influence of the poisonous Koch money (2 SOPA professor are being sued by another SOPA professor in a defamation of character and libel lawsuit).  In AJ, at least 50% of faculty are CJR Fellows and despite at least 2 SOPA faculty requesting to work, Director Henderson has refused and has hired an outside faculty member...

The Kochs have a very long history of being antagonistic towards African-Americans because they threaten the Good Ol’ Boys Club (White Men of Privilege). The Kochs’ do not believe in civil rights and have even been supporting Neo-Confederates teaching college students: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-charles-koch-is-helping-neo-confederates-teach-college-students/ https://www.newsweek.com/koch-bros-hide-donations-behind-civil-rights-precedent-477786 There is even a non-profit organization called UnKochMyCampus actively working against the Kochs: http://www.unkochmycampus.org/ The myopic and narrow-minded muppetry of the previous Lane administration appears to be  carried on blindly by the Huewitt administration. The Kochs are not friends of academic freedom, transparency, faculty rights and shared governance as has been made clear in their past universities lawsuits and their interactions with the media. The Kochs have been extremely successful in doi...

As everyone knows from our previous posts, the Center for Justice Research is a Koch front much like centers at Auburn, George Mason and Florida State University. The Kochs and their cronies operate by creating so-called "academic centers" sometimes hiding behind other organizations as they did with our campus, funneling the money through the Thurgood Marshal Scholarship Fund.  These centers typical churn out white papers and other pseudo-scientific documents and official-sounding "reports" in order to give the appearance of a serious and legitimate academic think-tank on a college campus after which the Kochs then go to state legislatures waving the "scientific" papers and lobby for changes in business practices which of course directly benefit them.  The only people who win are the Kochs and their cronies who either directly or indirectly own businesses which benefit from the newly deregulated laws and/or favorable business climate approved by the govern...