Talk:Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz

Edit warring to add new "controversies" section

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As President at University of Evansville, Pietruszkiewicz's time has been replete with issues.

In 2020, a number of petitions circulated calling for his firing or removal came from students and community after Pietruszkiewicz’s proposal to eliminate several departments and consolidate the four colleges into three.

In his draft plan, the computer science, music and electrical engineering and philosophy and religion departments would be eliminated entirely. Additionally, Spanish, history, art history, political science and physics majors would also be eliminated.  This would lead to a total of 35 and 40 faculty also eventually be fired.

The University of Evansville Board of Trustees are said to have stayed quiet on the issue.

In 2019, the University of Evansville made what members of the Evansville community claimed to be controversial decision to sell the students' station to WAY-FM, a non-profit nationwide network that plays contemporary Christian music.

UE President Chris M. Pietruszkiewicz was said to have refused to meet with UE students who objected to the sale. This was an accusation made and observed publicly a number of times and never refuted by the President nor University.

The community of Evansville and WUEV supporters rallied behind keeping WUEV through protests on campus and letter writing campaign.

As written, this material is unacceptable in a biography of a living person. It begins with the POV statement that the subject's tenure has been "replete" with issues but then cites two issues. The first issue is a disagreement about a draft plan including a mention of an Internet petition calling for his resignation or firing. It also includes the non-story that the trustees have been "quiet" about the issue. The second issue is a disagreement about the sale of a campus radio station.

It's extraordinarily common for there to be disagreements about decisions made a university president. If they were easy decisions, they probably wouldn't need to be made by the president. As written, these particular decisions don't rise to the level of inclusion in an encyclopedia article. The ongoing disagreements about the potential reorganization of the university might rise to the level of inclusion if something substantive comes of all of it but so far it appears to be the common push-and-pull that occurs with any potentially controversial decision involving the disestablishment of academic programs and reassignment or firing of faculty members. The disagreement about the radio station doesn't appear to be significant enough to mention at all.

Incidentally, the hedging language employed in this text ("are said to have", "claimed to be", "accusation...never refuted") is a massive red flag that this material is not suitable for any encyclopedia article never mind a BLP. ElKevbo (talk) 01:43, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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