The administration is bullying the philosophy department at the University of Colorado-Boulder

According to the report made public by the administration, "at least" 15 complaints have been filed against individual members of the department with the Office of Discrimination and Harassment (ODH) -- evidently, since 2007. But the report contains no further information about those complaints or the outcomes of those complaints.

So if only a small number of men in the department are responsible for the department's problems that got it into hot water with the administration, then it would appear that at least some of them had more than one complaint filed against them with the ODH.

According to another published source, four out of the 24 tenure-track faculty in the department are women; 10 out of 53 graduate students are women; and four out of 13 non-tenure-track faculty are women. The four tenure-track women joined two other non-tenure-track women (one of whom is retired) to issue the statement reported by Kuta.

STEVEN F. HAYWARD'S OP-ED PIECE

In a strong op-ed piece titled "CU Philosophy: True accountability deserves greater transparency" in the Daily Camera, dated Feb. 19, 2014, Steven F. Hayward, the inaugural visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at CU, examines the report's vagueness not only regarding the complaints filed with the ODH but also regarding alleged bullying.

Hayward says, "The experience of a small number of faculty whose intellectual contempt for colleagues generates a toxic departmental climate is hardly unique to CU. But a report that avoids disclosing facts and details but rests instead on survey responses -- an exceedingly weak form of evidence for charges so serious -- falls short of any reasonable standard of proof. Barring more transparency, I think the presumption should be reversed: the Philosophy Department is the victim of the increasingly Star-Chamber atmosphere of campus political correctness."

Let us note that Hayward assumes that only "a small number of faculty" is the problem regarding the charges.

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