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Name: Sara Newton-Neis on Mar 23, 2010Comments: Tenure for Pavithra!Flag
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Name: John O'Brien on Mar 24, 2010Comments: Tenure for P! Denying her tenure after her outstanding results at every step and every vote of the tenure process was either arbitrary or sinister. Rectify.Flag
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Name: Sky Wilson on Mar 24, 2010Comments: The denial of Dr Narayanan's advancement to tenure represents an outrageous abuse of administrative power that the institution--_our institution_--must fix!Flag
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Name: Kumi Silva on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: David Monje on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Levi Schultz on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Amy Kahrmann Huseby on Mar 26, 2010Comments: Dr. Narayanan is one of the most innovative, challenging, productive, and engaging instructors on the WSU-V campus. The denial of her tenure is a travesty. It appears to be a decision based on economics rather than this fine individual's worth or value to the institution and it's students. The administration needs to listen to its constituency - the students, who are demanding this issue be revisited and re-examined. As one of those who paid into the tuition and financial situation of WSU, I want to know that future students will benefit from Dr. Narayanan's skill, encouragement, and original thinking.Flag
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Name: Nalin A. Jayasena on Mar 26, 2010Comments: To Whom It May Concern, I have known Dr. Narayanan for 9 years and over the years she has amazed me with her natural aptitude for the academic profession. She is a dedicated teacher and a brilliant scholar. Denying her tenure is a travesty and an enormous loss to the Washington State community.Flag
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Name: Iveta Jusova on Mar 26, 2010Comments: I am very happy to endorse this petition. Dr. Narayan’s tenure has been approved by all of the committees involved. In spite of this overwhelming support, the WSU Dean of Faculty denied Dr. Narayan the tenure she so obviously deserves. The votes were as follows: department: 22-1, external examiners: 4-0; tenure and promotion committee: 7-0; dean’s advisory committee: 3-0; vice chancellor: approved. Dean of Faculty: rejected the candidacy. This decision, so blatantly unjust, should be reversed. It is my hope that after reviewing the case, which is now in the appeal stage, the Washington State University President will grant Dr. Narayan her tenure this year.Flag
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Name: Melissa Hussain on Mar 26, 2010Comments: I am upset at the fact that the WSU administration has rejected Dr. Narayanan's advancement to tenure. As a PhD student who is working closely with her, I want to point out that she is a member of my dissertation committee, and she has played an extremely crucial and influential role in my own past and present scholarly work, including my dissertation. I cannot emphasize enough that this role cannot be filled by ANY OTHER current faculty member at WSU. And in her scholarship and teaching, her work offers insights, analysis and perspectives that are sorely needed at WSU. In fact her scholarship and teaching fills a huge gap at WSU in a number of ways. Also, given her commitment to activist scholarship and documentary work, she is a role-model and mentor for students who are also interested in such work. Furthermore, I am extremely upset WSU would not value Dr. Narayanan's work, and can only even (empirically) conclude that WSU remains extremely hostile to women of color. And in terms of what scholarship "counts," let me be blunt: I find it extremely problematic that the kind of documentary work Dr. Narayanan has done (such as her excellent and widely distributed documentary on the Bhopal disaster in India) is not counted as "scholarship" in the same way that a traditional academic essay is counted (which might be read by a few peers or only the reviewers and then play the routine role of gathering dust on the library shelves or which might be "abandoned to the gnawing criticism of the mice," to use Marx's phrase). Perhaps if WSU were to have less hot-dog celebrations of diversity and more understanding of the institution of racism, this would become blatantly clear. The denial of her tenure is nothing but a loss for WSU. I strongly urge that her case be reconsidered.Flag
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Name: Laura Whitaker on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Rose Pelzl on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Erika Huston on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Erin Wilkinson on Mar 26, 2010Comments: Pavithra is the reason I am a film maker today. After her class in Documentary film theory and production, she taught me how to edit, etc. I have been a film maker for the past three years now. Also I took her global Literature class, I learned more in that class than I ever had in an English class. She forced me to focus and learn things that made me a more efficient critical thinker and when I felt like giving up, she kept me going.Flag
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Name: David Barry on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Chris Hill on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lisa Mclaughlin on Mar 26, 2010Comments: I fully support Dr. Pavithra Narayanan's tenure and promotion. Following from the information that I have received, it appears that almost everyone except for the Dean of Faculty supports her being awarded tenure and promotion. I have known her for many years, and I know that she is deserving of tenure and promotion because of the quality of her teaching and scholarship. The Dean of Faculty's decision seems legally actionable, and, in addition, should be demoralizing to Dr. Narayanan and all of her colleagues at Wathington State University.Flag
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Name: Jim Brown on Mar 26, 2010Comments: As a Vancouver resident, and tax payer, Pavithra has my full support. Fight on, and fight hard.Flag
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Name: Hayley (Norton) Bezorudko-Chyrykalov on Mar 26, 2010Comments: As a WSUV alumni I am absolutely shocked and angered to hear of Dr. Narayanan's denial of tenure. Dr. Narayanan was one of the most influential educators I had the pleasure of studying under during my time as an undergraduate. For the past two years I have been working in post-communist Europe and can attest that the education I received in her classes has had "real-world" merit and has influenced my development as a Global Citizen.Flag
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Name: Dan Reyes, Ph.D. on Mar 26, 2010Comments: Washington State should recognize it's good fortune in having Dr. Narayanan among its faculty.Flag
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Name: Mary Jo Klinker on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Katy Miller on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Olivia Leirer on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dr. Mary E. Frederickson on Mar 26, 2010Comments: I stand together with my colleague Dr. Lisa MacLaughlin in Communications at Miami University in fully support Dr. Pavithra Narayanan's tenure and promotion, based on the information that we have received about this case. As Dr. MacLaughlin states, it appears that almost everyone except for the Dean of Faculty supports her being awarded tenure and promotion. The Dean of Faculty's decision does seems legally actionable, and I trust that Dr. Narayanan will receive widespread support if and when she pursues this case with legal representation. # 19 Name: Jim Brown on Mar 26, 2010Flag
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Name: Braden R Boaglio on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Matthew Trease on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Lincoln Alpern on Mar 26, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Elizabeth (Liz) Wilson on Mar 26, 2010Comments: I know Pavithra to be a fabulous teacher and a creative scholar doing important work. I would be delighted to have her as a colleague. The negative tenure decision came as quite a shock, when I heard of it. Given the widespread support for Dr. Narayanan's tenure case, the decision to let her go makes little sense. I ask that the central administration of Washington State University reconsider the case. Liz Wilson Professor and Chair Department of Comparative Religion Miami UniversityFlag
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Name: Frank King on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kimberly E. Medley on Mar 27, 2010Comments: I know Pavithra as a great scholar and a wonderful teacher. She provided a great guest lecture in my class on Women, Gender, and the Environment and was a wonderful colleague in the Women Studies Program at Miami University. I know also that she loved her position at Washington State University and am frustrated by what seems to be a most unusual decision by the Dean of Faculty.Flag
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Name: Tarun Jain on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Pranav Jani on Mar 27, 2010Comments: Everyone but the Dean of Faculty is on board for Dr. Narayan's tenure!Flag
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Name: Bryan McCann, PhD on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Nikki Rankine on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Carly Rogers on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Ashley Dawson on Mar 27, 2010Comments: From what I know of it, this case seems like a gross infraction of faculty democracy.Flag
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Name: Jeanne Kay on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Dana Cloud on Mar 27, 2010Comments: University of TexasFlag
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Name: Abby Ferber on Mar 27, 2010Comments: This action seems to make the entire tenure review process a sham. It will send a very negative message and scare away future potential faculty.Flag
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Name: Katie Hogan on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Michel G. Jacquet on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Brian Victoria on Mar 27, 2010Comments: The whole purpose of tenure review committees is to ensure that no single individual has the ability to unjustly deny tenure. This appears to be a case in which despite the support of an overwhelming number of her peers and students a single individual has been able to deny tenure. This is unacceptable and the decision should be overturned with tenure granted.Flag
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Name: Ann Burnett on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Alexander Anievas on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Erika on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Gigi Roggero (University Of Bologna) on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Bojana Ćulum on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 27, 2010Comments:Flag