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Dear Dr. Woo,
RE: Hiramoto v. Goddard College
I wrote to you previously (#15) about racist Asian stereotypes that the all-white evaluation committee wrote for my evaluation. I was a 50% FTE faculty member in the MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College in Vermont.
I also want to write that I was overworked and testified that I was treated like a nanny, maid, slave and colonized person. The chair told me to write a summary of every book and artist I recommended to students, and admitted that she did not require this of other faculty or even of herself. Everyone else, including the chairs, wrote chatty, anecdotal responses to student reports.
The chair alleged that three students complained about me. However, two of the students wrote written apologies. In the third case, I was reprimanded by one chair for following the instructions of the other chair. During deposition, these chairs admitted they had no idea what was going on with these students.
The only faculty in the entire college who were dismissed for alleged student complaints was another faculty of Japanese ancestry and me by the same chair. This was a college where administrators, faculty, and students made racist comments about minorities.
The chair wrote that students did not want to work with me. After analyzing their data, I confirmed that many students requested me, but the chairs assigned them to other faculty against their wishes. Instead I was assigned more than my share of new and at-risk students who needed a lot of extra assistance.
The college rushed a new evaluation process without explanation or ratification from the faculty because the chair specifically wrote she wanted to evaluate me although I had another year left of my contract. The chair wrote ten pages of lies and did not give me the opportunity to correct those errors. I was dismissed by the chief academic officer the next business day. No one did any investigation.
The three perpetrators were evaluated on an absurdly low standard by the chair. For the record, here is how their resumes compare to mine. And the college claimed that I was unqualified.
Name Solo Group Awards Artist’s Teaching Experience
Shows Shows Bibliography (Selected top 3)
Hiramoto 19 259 27 201 Univ. of CA. Berkeley
Univ. of CA. Santa Cruz
SF Art Institute
Eaton none 50 none 22 St. John Fisher College
Empire State College
State Univ. of NY
Hocking none 8 3 2 Brown Univ.
Rhode Island Sch. of Design
Harvard Univ.
Lin none 37 3 3 Evergreen College
Johnson & Wales College
Goddard College is another plantation system to exploit Japanese-Americans.
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- Message ID: #20
- Subject: Letter from an Ivy League Professor (August 20, 1918)
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- Date: 2018-08-28
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My apologies for the poorly formatted data. The re-formatted version is here:
Hiramoto: 19 solo shows; 259 group shows; 27 awards; 201 bibliography; other teaching - Univ. of CA. Berkeley, Univ. of CA. Santa Cruz, San Francisco Art Institute.
Eaton: no solo shows; 50 group shows; no awards; 22 bibliography; other teaching - St. John Fisher College, Empire State College, State Univ. of NY.
Hocking: no solo shows; 8 group shows; 3 awards (for citizenship); 2 bibliography; other teaching- Brown Univ., Rhode Island Sch. of Design, Harvard Univ.
Lin: no solo shows; 37 group shows; 3 awards; 3 bibliography; other teaching - Evergreen College, Johnson & Wales College.
This information above was not presented to the court. I recently charged all the lawyers in the case, including my own, with a violation of Rule 60 (d)(3) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) -- fraud-on-the-court for withholding and misrepresenting facts and evidence in the case which is an obstruction of justice.
Dr. Woo is right -- it's time we all put our names to our allegations and call out the perpetrators.
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