Thread by @Reshmi777

1)On April 19,2021 faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences @LinfieldUniv pass a VONC against BOT Chair Dave Baca and Miles Davis. On April 20, the entire campus received an email that @SalemNAACP will investigate Linfield for racial amicus.@pollackpelzner @injeffinitely62

2)On April 21, 6 professors receive invitations (from the College of Arts and Sciences) to have a conversation with @SalemNAACP. These six professors have all been vocal in either social media or media about #InstitutionalBetrayals faced by students & faculty at @LinfieldUniv

3)These 6 profs are disturbed by the lack of transparency& intent behind them being interviewed. They view being targeted &retaliated for speaking up to media about lack of accountability about sexual assault, anti-Semitism, harassment and the Prez and BoT chairs abuse of power.

4) @LinfieldUniv published on April 22 “FACTS ABOUT LINFIELD AND HARASSMENT, DISCRIMINATION AND INTOLERANCE.”

This document notes: “A small but vocal group of faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences maintain that Linfield University is an unsafe place with no training in or oversight of issues such as sexual harassment or assault, religious bigotry and racism. That is untrue.”

5) If @LinfieldUniv is a place free of all discrimination and bigotry (according to the FACTS) then 2) why is @SalemNAACP investigating racial amicus on campus? 2) why is this investigation announced a day after the VONC against the President and BOT chair?

6) In the meantime, the Deans of the three schools and our BOT are actively trying to institute a “institutional code of conduct” to both intimidate, silence and censor students and faculty from critiquing institutional betrayals and wrong doings @AAUP

7) The 6 faculty targeted have written a letter to @SalemNAACP While faculty highly respect an organization like NAACP & recommend the intervention of the national @NAACP, it remains unclear to them why they are the only 6 faculty members NAACP is interested in speaking.

8) It is even more puzzling why @SalemNAACP wants to investigate racial climate when @LinfieldUniv is expecting the results of a climate survey that we were asked to participate in in Feb 2021.

9)In the meantime the students & faculty @LinfieldUniv continue to feel dismayed at our BOT’s abdication of fiduciary responsibilities & their insistence that we are all misinformed and misinforming.Such denials,abuse of power& gaslighting only magnifies institutional betrayals.

10) Let’s stand up for truth, accountability and institutional courage along with media like @Oregonian @OPB @newsregister @insidehighered for reporting. Faculty, students and media are not lying. Feeling safe is a basic right on every campus.

11) Students and faculty has been asking for justice for quite some time now.

12) #MeToo SexualAssault #SexualViolence and a large protest organized by @LinfieldUniv students have all be ignored by our BOT. Faculty has voted “no confidence” twice. All have been ignored by our BOT. The abusers remain. The abused continue to be abused.