My final faceFollow

Apparently makes people ballistic X-D
No really. I don't know if any of you have read the news but my University has been spammed in the interwebz for an adjunct accusing the University of retaliation.

You see, back in the Fall (2011), our University used city funds (tax money) to build a tower on land that they currently don't own but will be deeded to them in about 10 years. On the tower, they put a cross. This professor complained to the media (I was originally under the impression that she went through the schools administration first but was wrong. And this would become a habit of hers.)

Throughout the year, she would send emails requesting that a group of us would speak to the media; I refused each time, and each time her response would be something belittling, insinuating that I was a "bad" person. She would also send out emails, with forms letters, demanding that we send these out to file complaints on her behalf (DoJ, DoE, OCR) I didn't. --The complaints were investigated and dismissed.

Flash Forward to May, when she and 20 other adjuncts were let go. Our University began their accreditation process this semester, and a requirement through SACS was to have more tenured and less adjuncts. Previously we have been under the accreditation of Kingsville.
http://www.tamusa.tamus.edu/accreditation.html

Since April, she had been bugging a couple of us to speak to a reporter for the San Antonio tabloid, S.A. Current. According to her, the day the article was published, she was terminated (as if, the Administrators are sitting around all day looking for her interviews; they were in Israel visiting partner Universities) I refused again, and was told

From: sissyBRADFORD (she's all over the media anyway)
Subject: Re:
To: "Niobia"
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 6:28 PM

If you do not talk to Greg Harmon, you are killing the only opportunity I have to shed light on what happened.

Sent from my iPad

***** Light on what? Because, she had forwarded out everything she considered evidence, she forwarded out nasty emails she sent to coworkers that she thought were against her, nasty emails she sent students that she thought were against her (saying that the school should have told her, so she could avoid them) but to the media, she plays the victim.

The school removed the crosses. Her issue, her charges of "threats" were because after she loudly proclaimed that she was "offended" by the crosses, some people took offense to her. She got emails saying that they wished the University would fire her, one person mailed a Christmas card. (she's distributing this to anyone from her sky drive, anyone who emails her and acts like they support her cause)

The thing is, She was a Criminology adjunct, which requires 18 graduate credits of Crim or CJ in addition to a Masters degree (if they don't have a Crim or CJ Masters to begin with.)
She has her resume online, and although she has Masters degrees in Phys Ed and Sociology, she does not have any C.J. or Crim credits. (At this point, I don't even know if her degrees are real.)

Well, I vented on my facebook (which is locked, and not even under my regular email) but my mistake was that we shared one mutual friend, who took a screen shot of me whining about how I felt bamboozled. (I do, I trusted her, and felt bad for her but she was a complete and total liar.) The next thing I know, I have friends emailing me, calling, freaking out because she has this posted on her facebook site with my full name, my location, my college and my program (which tells you what campus I'm on. Graduate is on one campus, Undergrad is another.)

What has me bewildered, isn't her response (because she is really off kilter.) it's people in the media are taking her word, and aren't checking their sources. She isn't hiding her resume, it's public on LinkedIn. The Southern Accreditation Associations standards are public viewing, as are the Universities requirements to be a tenured Criminology professor and to be an adjunct (use Psychology for a comparison - you need 18 credits in the subject matter, ie. CJ or Crim to teach it.)

Oh, and her fake internet lawyers trump me. The lawyer(s) she hired are a PhD Middle Ages historian, a Playwriter from New Jersey and a photographer (from AAUP, FIRE and AU) The first group, wrote a letter demanding that the University obey their associations laws - its like he really is trying to pass himself off as a lawyer. The second does the same thing and even includes some kind of legal defense title. The third, he just wants attention >.<

This just struck me as, I don't know....
She's spamming it everywhere.
"I am available for interviews only if the following individuals are also included in the interview:
Dr. Kreiser, AAUP, http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/contactus.htm
Mr. Bonilla, FIRE, http://thefire.org/people/4092.html
Mr. Lane, AUSA, http://www.au.org/chapters/san-antonio

I will provide documentation supporting my statements and/or URLs for verification."

***and no one is reading or cross checking the validity of the documents.


http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sissy+bradford

http://sissybradford.wordpress.com/

That's pretty crazy. Also, you should probably remove that mutual friend from your Facebook. Or hit him/her in the face with a book.

yup. hopefully her next post isn't "heres where nio's kids go to temple." :(

You're on the fringes of a feeding frenzy, at least a feeding frenzy that she is trying to to keep going.

I would have removed and blocked the mutual friend for passing along my comments to your former instructor. Review your privacy settings and lock them down. Since Facebook's interface changes on what seems a daily basis, it's prudent to regularly review the privacy settings.

Set up a Google alert for your name so you can see if anything is posted about you. It won't catch everything, but you'll find out if anything was posted about you in a public forum.

She's an adjunct professor that's trying to make a name for herself and become the professor that fires up her students "to do the right thing." All she's doing is killing her chances for tenure anywhere.

Mostly Sissy. (the mutual friend is blocked, unless you are my friend you won't find my facebook. I'm probably going to delete my linkedin as well.) I know it's all over the place, even Sissy's stories change. All I know is that I found that her educational background is not consistent with the requirements for her to be teaching Criminology. The university is seeking it's own accreditation, so they have to be very strict about following the requirements.
Technically we aren't accredited, we are using A&M Kingsvilles accreditation.

So, when we apply for financial aid, we go through two offices for approval, two offices for problems and questions.

It all sounds very technical and confusing.

So what you're saying is she has a masters in studying people running around?

Isn't that the norm these days?

Did he ever say what his dissertation was for his Ph.D. It is surprising that he is not part of some research team or the like.

No, I didn't like him enough to ask. He was a jerk. =x

He's America's most famous criminologist. He's also an award winning aerobatic pilot. John is such a common name in America because so many people name their children after him. Be careful, he'll steal your girlfriend.

I'd kick out the PE teachers first too. Then the Drama students.

Seriously, you're going to pay that much money for four years when you'd get more training in the craft by doing community theatre for a year? Pfft.

And the PE teachers these days learn a lot more than how to do calisthenics. A lot of them are learning some pretty serious science, under the umbrella of the kinesiology school, including anatomy, organic chemistry, and even some intro psychology.