Rachel McKinnon/Veronic Ivy threatens legal action against own university for poor performance review

[quote Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]Just seen a tweet with what appears to be an excerpt from the minutes of the 2019 Charleston College discussion about whether to give tenure to McKinnon, which was the name in use at the time. I honestly would expect to be sacked if comments like this were made about me, never mind promoted. twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1265194717597270018?s=20[/quote]
That excerpt is shocking. They were scared to speak up against McK and some abstained rather than voted no. The whole modules operandi of shouting transphobe and bigot at anyone who disagrees with you is encapsulated right there. The comment about how disagreement and criticism was considered to be “morally illegitimate” is horrendous.

It looks like someone who wants to play at being an academic in the same way that Marie Antoinette pretended to be a shepherdess: None of the actual work, just play with the sheepies.

I have wondered that. The other thing that's crossed my mind is that there is surely a duty of care on the institution to safeguard students from unprofessional and damaging behaviour from staff, not to mention that in an era where student fees are astronomically high students who feel they're being shortchanged academically are likely to complain.

I got the sense from that evaluation that the module Professor Ivy teaches was light on content and the students' assessment tasks were far from taxing. In the short term, students are probably delighted to get an easy high mark, but if they find that they're not well prepared for the next level modules and get lower marks as a consequence, they may feel differently later on.

Tricky area as the students are legally adults, but still young and impressionable, and financial dependence on parents during the student years has an infantilising effect.

It’s almost as if McKinnon has been masquerading as someone qualified, rather than actually being qualified. Strange.

Jesus, that tenure report extract. How is someone that shit keeping a job, let alone being promoted?

I thought in the US it was hard to be granted tenure? Makes me wonder if they got it because the university were scared of legal action/discrimination claims?

Just seen a tweet with what appears to be an excerpt from the minutes of the 2019 Charleston College discussion about whether to give tenure to McKinnon, which was the name in use at the time. I honestly would expect to be sacked if comments like this were made about me, never mind promoted. twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1265194717597270018?s=20

Goodness me. I've often wondered what it would be like to take Professor Ivy's module. Would you risk expressing a political view the Prof didn't agree with? I see the minimal assessment for the module included 1 or 2 page reflective essays where students could sum up their political positions.

That’s some melt down from ‘her thighness’. Not shocked though.
Fancy listing your colleagues by name, and telling them to to fucked while you still work there though!

Also have no fucks to give for the person who posted a gif of a dancing skeleton on the day Magdalen Berns died.

I'm slightly upset by the .And after a full stop on page 3.

I'm shocked at what appears be a terrible review yet still receiving good and very good 2/3 of the page akd still walking away with a satisfactory.

I read that as meaning they know that at some point they are going to need to take more serious disciplinary action, but they are bending over backwards to make this performance management process as supportive as possible because they know RMK is litigious and will claim discrimination (as indeed happened anyway).

SarahTancredi

Yes, McKinnon/Ivy is not a nobody. I think it’s important to understand that when Mckinnnon/Ivy is speaking publicly about the destruction of women’s sport, it’s self-serving, and now we know it’s self-serving to the point of neglecting their responsibilities.

I'm sorry but this is hilarious as is the 🥝 thread on this person. I'll fall asleep with a smile on my face tonight

Associate Professor is equivalent to senior lecturer / reader here. Assistant Professor is the equivalent to lecturer. My university switched over to these American grades a while back. Moving between Assistant and Associate Professor is what’s known as getting tenure (having a permanent job).

I'm cool with slagging off an individual who hope I, along with other women, would 'die in a grease fire'. Fuck niceness to abusers.

Yes associate professor in America equates to a lecturer position here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_professor

down as an associate professor.

Bear in mind being a professor in the US is not at all equivalent to being one here.

notbad

Werent they interviewed on the radio specifically about the sports thing having written this paper themselves which is now being deemed lacking in certain aspects/credibility.

I feel like Martina navratilova and Sharron Davies etc who were part of the radio shows and questioned at times in a way made to make them look like they were the misinformed and unreasonable ones should he publically apologised to.

The research section ....the 'very good' seems to be on the basis of quantity rather than quality....and it sounds like they're less than impressed with the current line of work (which is basically trying to destroy women's sports).

She's down as an associate professor.

I think it’s in the public interest that a very vocal and well known TRA (has argued with Martina Navratilova) has published an essay on Gaslighting and that their existence at a university is centred around forwarding their own rights as a transgender cyclist rather than being an active member of the department.

Highlighting hypocrisy and narcissism in people who are trying to deprive women of sporting success is necessary.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the evening! 😉

Serves them right.

O joy - my heart sings.

The appraisal says it might impact their prospects of promotion to ‘professor’, but it is addressed to Professor Ivy. And didn’t they boast about tenure a year or two ago?

Is they professor or not?

Attending no departmental meetings or events...