Transparency State University

We support our students and especially our future lawyers.  They do need reliable working technology and it did seem clear that they also needed to have a set schedule for classes.  According to the Instagram video, it appeared that over the summer the law school informed the students there would be online and hybrid classes, but around the beginning of the fall semester, the students were suddenly told in person, face to face classes were now required.    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUF-i1Pq4pR/?utm_medium=copy_link This created quite a problem on both ends- technology needed to adjust on campus for the sudden expansion of on-campus classes but law students at the forum with Madam President and Dean Bullock informed them that a lot of law students had not made arrangements for housing and had to really scramble to find housing nearby.   Yet it had to be an important enough protest for the Houston Chronicle to show up:  https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/artic

Being a Dean of a school can be enormously lucrative for personal and lavish perks, not including a bigger office and a personal assistant(s).  There is also a nice stipend attached to your paycheck as well.  While we support our deans in the work that they do and especially our students, we do wonder why BOTH deans of SOC and COLABS have to travel to California for a jazz festival and one of them appears to have brought her husband along?   From an objective viewpoint, using state funds to travel for personal and unnecessary reasons seems to be a bad idea.  Perhaps a chaperone was needed but why send BOTH deans?  

In our last post of the SOPA Fundraiser on August 6, 2021 we wrote: https://transparencystate.blogspot.com/2021/08/sopa-fundraising-conflicts-with-new.html Dr. Ewoh went around the fundraising room appearing to demand and shake out money by directly asking the attendees how much they will donate.  It appears that the SOPA fundraiser had about $14,000 in pledges.  Some highlights: Dean George Kieh- pledged $2000 Dr. Andrew Ewoh- pledged $1000 Dr. Rina Majundar- pledged $500 and also said she would establish a book scholarship in memory of late father. Ms. Richelle Jones- pledged $1800 Mr. Chad Sebastien- pledged $2000 Ms. Sheila Taylor- pledged $1000 Dr. Glenn Johnson- Need to think about it- so that means pledge or no pledge(?) Dr. Ashraf Mozayani- pledged $1000 Ms. Terry Phillips pledged $500 An adjunct professor pledged $200 (a bribery-ish attempt to keep his adjunct position?) Ms. Terry Phillips pledge $500  Dr. Baker- pledged $1000. Perhaps he was motivated by being reappointed to