Telemex,
If presbycusis is unable to tell you 'for which reason' 5 Flying Instuctors have been 'forced' to leave WMU I will enlighten you.
All 5 were suspended on the 10th January 2002, pending an investigation, which was to be conducted by the Office of Institutional Equity within Western Michigan University.
The following day the Dean of the Aviation College was suspended from duty until September 2002, for medical reasons, following which he would retire.
Following the internal investigation, one of the 5, The Head of Training, was offered reinstatment, with demotion, within IPTC (International Pilot Training College). He was offered the CFI's position, a Flying Instructor's position or a Ground Instructor's position.
The remaining 4 Instructors were told, folllowing the internal investigation, that they were to be 'terminated'. All 4 requested their attorney to inform the University that they would not accept being 'terminated' unless they were given a reason for the termination. None was given nor proven.
Whilst this process of communication was taking place one of the Flying Instructors elected to accept an offer from elsewhere and offered to resign from IPTC.
The three remaining Instructors were informed by Western Michigan University that they had a deadline by which they were expected to resign. All three refused to resign as they had not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The remaining three Instructors have not had their annual contracts renewed, 1 July 2002. All three have been forced to leave IPTC.
One of the reasons for the investigation to be conducted was that there were accusations by students, staff and outside people that the staff at IPTC were treating 'minority groups' in a different way to European cadets.
This is quite untrue. Members of staff within the college were expected to lower the standards, by management, such that minority group students could 'pass' the internal written and FAA flight renewal examinations. The standards, whether they were FAA or JAA, were upheld by the suspended staff.
Western Michigan University, under it's present African American president, pursues a policy of 'Affirmative Action'. Affirmative Action is a series of executive orders and laws designed to correct the current effects of past discrimination.
