A faculty committee has stopped its investigation of the University of Arizona’s campus safety protocols, launched after Professor Thomas Meixner was killed. The panel says UA officials were unsupportive and dismissive.
Kathryn Palmer An ad-hoc faculty committee has stopped its investigation of the University of Arizona’s campus safety protocols, saying university officials were unsupportive and dismissive of its preliminary findings.
People are also reading… As a result of the UA's"chilling" response, the letter says, the committee “unanimously agreed to conclude our inquiry at this point.” The premature end to the faculty committee’s campus safety investigation comes about a month after the panel released its interim report, which concluded the UA’s “approach to violence risks, established an administrative culture that consciously and consistently disregards employee and students’ safety concerns.”
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio At the same time, the group of faculty members created the separate committee to investigate campus safety, which released its interim findings on Feb. 1. In response to the faculty report’s criticisms, UA spokeswoman Pam Scott raised questions about its credibility. The report “represents the work of a subset of faculty that has reached sweeping conclusions based in large part on misleading characterizations and the selective use of facts and quotations," Scott said on Feb. 1.
It also details how, after the UA characterized the interim report as misleading, the committee made an attempt to address the allegedly incorrect pieces of the report by reaching out to UA administrators. They were deferred, however, to Phil Andrew, principal of PAX, who, according to the report, has not responded to the committee’s request to collaborate.
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