Boulder Faculty Assembly Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting on February 3, 2014
As is discussed in the AAUP Statement, "Report on CU’s
Treatment of the Philosophy Department", Profesor Brad Monton, who was
a member of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Executive Committee at the
time, made some remarks that were mildly critical of the University
Adminstration, of the Office of Discrimination and Harassment,
and of the Site Visit Report. Subsequently, Monton was summoned to a
meeting at which the following people were going to be
present: Professor Paul
Chinowsky (the Chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly), and Professor
Andrew Cowell (the External Interim Chair of the Philsophy Department).
As Monton was leaving his office for the metting, however, he was told
by Professor Cowell that instead of meeting with Paul Chinowsky, they would meet with Steven Leigh (the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences). In the end, Monton found himself in a meeting involving Andrew Cowell, Dean Steven Leigh, and Professor Mary Kraus (an Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences).
As described in the AAUP Report, Dean Steven Leigh
and Professor Andrew Cowell proceeded to pressure Monton into
retracting the opinions that he had presented to the Boulder Faculty
Assembly Executive Committee, and also into resigning from his position
on the Boulder Faculty Assembly.
The uphot was that the original minutes of the
Executive Committee Meeting of February 3, 2014, which contained
Monton's criticisms of the University Adminstration, the Office of Discrimination and Harassment, and the Site Visit Report
were removed from the Boulder Faculty Assembly website, and then
replaced weeks later with revised minutes, from which Monton's
criticisms had been completely removed.
1. The Original Minutes of the Meeting
2. The Revised Minutes, After the Forced Retraction of Bradley Monton's Comments