July 31, 2007Dear faculty, staff, and students,
Last week Assistant Professor of Education, Dr. Ethel King-McKenzie, resigned from Wells College. In her letter to me, Professor King-McKenzie explained that her family situation has changed, making it important for her to be near her family.
Professor King-McKenzie came to Wells in 2004. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, her M.A. in Social Studies and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and Curriculum Theory from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Before coming to Wells, Professor King-McKenzie taught at Ashland University in Ohio. At Wells, Dr. King-McKenzie taught many different courses in the education program. Highlights of her work at Wells include two courses she developed: Educ 320, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, and a Wlls 101 section, Education and Third World Women.
Professor King-McKenzie wrote that she "will treasure" her time at Wells. We will miss her enthusiasm and involvement in many campus events. I'm sure you will join with me in wishing Dr. King-McKenzie all the best in her future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Leslie Miller-Bernal
Dean of the College
Dr. King-McKenzie, who was a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Education at Wells, is now working at
August 13, 2007Dear Members of the Wells Community:
At the end of last week, I received a letter of resignation from Jill S. H. Hill, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Dr. Hill received her B.A. in psychology, with honors, and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology, from Loyola College in Maryland; she received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oklahoma. At Wells Dr. Hill taught a wide range of courses, including indigenous psychologies, psychotherapy, abnormal psychology, and educational psychology. She also helped the College engage in program assessment, and with Professor Olson, developed the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Minor.
Professor Hill explained that she has accepted another professional position. She wrote that she “can only hope” that her future students “will be as dedicated, passionate, and self-aware as the women and men of Wells.”
I know you will join me in wishing Professor Hill fulfillment and success in her new position.
Leslie Miller-Bernal
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Dr. Hill, who was a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wells, is now working at
No email sent about Professor Raúl Delgado Rodríguez who was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wells for three years.
1 comment:
Wells is septic. Administrators and many professors have no clue what diversity means. For many of them "diversity" is just a word that they banter around. Some of the most racist people at Wells are the ones who have been there too long. Wells is all they know. They have not been exposed to the world beyond the Lake and Aurora. Wells and Aurora are their perspective of the world...and they want it to remain white--pristine. Dr. King-McKenzie, Dr. Hill, Dr. Green, Dr. Denard and other faculty of color who are not willing to give up their cultural identities could not and would not prosper at Wells.
People who know worlds away from Wells will not remain at Wells for a long time.
To answer this question of "Where have----and why?" however, one needs to find out from these faculty of color how many of them were fired or "resigned". You know when Wells fire people they are asked to say they resigned. There is an under current of hate and intolerance for anyone not white or cannot pass for white at Wells. The closer one is, to being white "passing for white" or losing ones indentity the better it is for that person at Wells.
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