Graduate Student Abuse

www.graduatestudentabuse.org

Welcome to www.graduatestudentabuse.org. This is a website that has been set up in response to the events that have transpired over time in the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, specifically the way in which the faculty of that department has interacted throughout the years with its graduate students. This website focuses primarily on two things:

The series of three reviews of this department that occurred from 1999-2000 to 2004-2005, the events that led up to these reviews, and the attempts to deny and cover up the abuse of graduate students that was partially uncovered by these reviews and which had gone on for years in this department;

An analysis of these events and conclusions drawn from that analysis regarding the nature of the relationship between the University Administration and the University's tenured professoriate, and the role this relationship and the conventions on which it rests, e.g. academic tenure, play in the treatment of graduate students.

This report is divided into eight sections, and includes general background information (both with regard to academe as a whole and to UCLA and its Slavic Department in particular), an explication of specific events, and original source documentation such as the first Eight-Year Review report on the UCLA Slavic Department, email communications, letters, etc. The latter half of this report provides an analysis of these events, places them into a larger and different interpretive context, and concludes with a series of suggestions to bring about change.

These eight sections can be read as either HTML files or PDF files. Section IV, which provides original source documentation, is subdivided into ten sections, IV-A through IV-J. In addition, the complete report is also available as a single PDF file for those who would prefer to download it in its entirety. There is also a section for suggested links, including a link to an open blog for this website.

Section	Title	Web	PDF
I	Introduction: What is This Report About and Why is It Necessary?	I	I
II	Contextualization of the Problem	II	II
III	Explanation of the Documents	III	III
IV-A	Eight-Year Review Report on the UCLA Slavic Department	IV-A	IV-A
IV-B	Annotated Copy of the Eight-Year Review Report	IV-B	IV-B
IV-C	Letter from Faculty Head of the Internal Review Team	IV-C	IV-C
IV-D	Initial Report from Internal Review Team's Graduate Student Representative	IV-D	IV-D
IV-E	Email Communications from Internal Review Team's Graduate Student Representative	IV-E	IV-E
IV-F	Email from Internal Review Team's Graduate Student Representative Concerning Distribution of Eight-Year Review	IV-F	IV-F
IV-G	UCLA Slavic Dept. Response to Eight-Year Review Report	IV-G	IV-G
IV-H	UCLA Slavic Dept. Graduate Student Handbook	IV-H	IV-H
IV-I	Departmental Internal Report	IV-I	IV-I
IV-J	Resolution Passed by the Graduate Students Association	IV-J	IV-J
V	Michael Heim and the Consequences of His Actions	V	V
VI	System "Breakdowns"; Actions of Individuals/Entities	VI	VI
VII	Conclusions: What the Documents Tell Us about the System and Academe	VII	VII
VIII	Anticipated Reactions and Final Recommendations	VIII	VIII

I-VIII	[Download the complete report as a single PDF file]		I-VIII
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