This is a crime!

[HappyShark]

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs students deployed as National Guardsmen are punished for helping with Hurricane Katrina and Rita!!

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/l ... 38,00.html

I'll try to find that petition!

[chippewa]

What kind of message is that sending to our youth? That's exactly the type of thing they should be encouranging them to do! Crazy.

[Quiet and Shy]

Good grief!

I can't fathom how someone can take that approach and do that...unbelievable!

[ragtopW]

I'm just not sure what to say..

[Elrod]

What a crock of sh!t!

The Vice Chancellor for Student Success is Jim Henderson. He "confirmed there's no official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments. Still, each year he e-mails professors urging them to accommodate students called to military duty."

Reading that, I think he recognizes there is a problem.

I'm going to e-mail and thank him for recognizing the problem and encourage him to implement an "official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments."

"UCCS is establishing an office this fall to handle issues for active military, veterans and family members" but that doesn't help the students that were penalized last year. Faculty members that failed to make accomodations for deployed students because using the excuse that they "think some makeup work can't be effectively replicated, such as a group presentation" should be reviewed.

I'm going to copy my state senator and state representative to make sure that they understand that there is a problem.

Vice Chancellor Henderson's phone number is (719)262-3582. His e-mail address is jhenders@uccs.edu

[ragtopW]

What a crock of sh!t!

The Vice Chancellor for Student Success is Jim Henderson. He "confirmed there's no official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments. Still, each year he e-mails professors urging them to accommodate students called to military duty."

Reading that, I think he recognizes there is a problem.

I'm going to e-mail and thank him for recognizing the problem and encourage him to implement an "official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments."

"UCCS is establishing an office this fall to handle issues for active military, veterans and family members" but that doesn't help the students that were penalized last year. Faculty members that failed to make accomodations for deployed students because using the excuse that they "think some makeup work can't be effectively replicated, such as a group presentation" should be reviewed.

I'm going to copy my state senator and state representative to make sure that they understand that there is a problem.

Vice Chancellor Henderson's phone number is (719)262-3582. His e-mail address is jhenders@uccs.edu

I think those professors must be pinkos from Cal-Berkley

[Dezdmona]

Shameful...this is reflective of how some professors are showing their support of the US Military (and/or their Political opinions).

Just because they can.

Unfortunately, they are hurting individuals rather than making the "larger" statement they probably intend.

Elrod's suggestion of requesting a change in legislation to protect individual students from this type of discrimination is probably the only realistic hope for change.

[Quiet and Shy]

What a crock of sh!t!

The Vice Chancellor for Student Success is Jim Henderson. He "confirmed there's no official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments. Still, each year he e-mails professors urging them to accommodate students called to military duty."

Reading that, I think he recognizes there is a problem.

I'm going to e-mail and thank him for recognizing the problem and encourage him to implement an "official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments."

"UCCS is establishing an office this fall to handle issues for active military, veterans and family members" but that doesn't help the students that were penalized last year. Faculty members that failed to make accomodations for deployed students because using the excuse that they "think some makeup work can't be effectively replicated, such as a group presentation" should be reviewed.

I'm going to copy my state senator and state representative to make sure that they understand that there is a problem.

Vice Chancellor Henderson's phone number is (719)262-3582. His e-mail address is jhenders@uccs.edu

I think those professors must be pinkos from Cal-Berkley

But this wasn't even anti-war stuff....

They were helping hurricane victims!!!

My comment isn't aimed at you Wayne...I'm just so aghast by the professors' stupidity based on missing only two weeks' work....

Good luck with your efforts, Elrod!!

[ragtopW]

What a crock of sh!t!

The Vice Chancellor for Student Success is Jim Henderson. He "confirmed there's no official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments. Still, each year he e-mails professors urging them to accommodate students called to military duty."

Reading that, I think he recognizes there is a problem.

I'm going to e-mail and thank him for recognizing the problem and encourage him to implement an "official policy governing the treatment of short-term military deployments."

"UCCS is establishing an office this fall to handle issues for active military, veterans and family members" but that doesn't help the students that were penalized last year. Faculty members that failed to make accomodations for deployed students because using the excuse that they "think some makeup work can't be effectively replicated, such as a group presentation" should be reviewed.

I'm going to copy my state senator and state representative to make sure that they understand that there is a problem.

Vice Chancellor Henderson's phone number is (719)262-3582. His e-mail address is jhenders@uccs.edu

I think those professors must be pinkos from Cal-Berkley

But this wasn't even anti-war stuff....

They were helping hurricane victims!!!

My comment isn't aimed at you Wayne...I'm just so aghast by the professors' stupidity based on missing only two weeks' work....

Good luck with your efforts, Elrod!!

and E if you find the Petition and I qualify to sign let me know..



Alison.. the Berkley staff was anti Military in any form..

and trust me it was the first thing I thought of when I read the article
but also the only one that would not get me banned..

[Elrod]

and E if you find the Petition and I qualify to sign let me know..

The only petition I could find was students collecting signatures on campus.

If I can find anything online, I'll pass it along.

Elrod's suggestion of requesting a change in legislation to protect individual students from this type of discrimination is probably the only realistic hope for change.

I copied the representative and the senator on the e-mail this morning.

The senator never served in the military and his real job is college professor. The representative received the Excellence in Service Award from the National Guard Foundation. I see it 50/50, but wait: this is an election year.