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Re: LIU Brooklyn Faculty Lock Out

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End the LIU Lock Out
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Eric Krasnoff
Chair of Long Island University
700 Northern Blvd
Brookville, NY 11548


Dear Mr Krasnoff

I’m a student at LIU/Brooklyn in the Masters Degree program for Computer 
Sciences.  I’ve attended LIU since 1986 when I entered and graduated the 
Pharmacy Program.  I also attended the PhD Program in Pharmaceutics and 
now I am 2 years into my Masters in Comp Sci.   In my time within the 
Comp Sci program, I’ve often wondered whether the program should be 
accredited.  The moral with the faculty and student body has been often 
very negative.  When I asked about course work which is normally part of 
Computer Science programs, areas such as discrete mathematics,  compiler 
theory, and  parallel programming, I’ve been told that our school doesn’t 
have a student body that can do these classes.  Other times I’ve been 
told that I shouldn’t expect such a quality education from LIU, and 
switch to an engineering institution like PolyTech, or that our students 
don’t “program”.  

What has kept me going is that the response to these opinions has been 
that the Chair of the department, in collaboration with faculty have 
pushed these intensive subjects back into the program.  They offered 
compiler theory last semester and this semester offered Parallel 
programming in C.  The Networking class added an extensive section on 
cryptography.  There has been a greater push for quality and it has been 
appreciated.

That is until now.

You fired your faculty leaving me signed up with a parallel programming 
class without a qualified faculty.  Furthermore, the same unqualified 
professor has said that he will not teach the Special Topics in 
Programming on a graduate school level.   I am in disbelief that after 
all this work, we are now working with an unqualified professor who is 
unfamiliar with the advanced topics that we are pursuing in Graduate 
School, and refuses to even make an effort to ramp up to the topics.  
Instead he is planning on teaching on a Community College level these 
advanced classes.

I’m tired of fighting both the negativism and the politics that boil over 
at this university.  I’m calling on you to immediately intervene in the 
current labor dispute and save the schools accreditation and reputation.  
It is time to replace all the recrimination and Nay Sayers with a “Can 
Do” attitude, and that starts with ending the lock out right away.  

There is nothing to be gained with this lock out at this point, even if 
there ever was.  The union is in no position to go on strike after 
protesting how they love their jobs and students, as they have been with 
such verbiage of pretentious doting for the last 2 weeks.  This labor 
dispute has to stop upsetting and leaking into the classroom NOW.  

It is a farce for the administration to say that the student experience 
is not being interrupted.  That deceit must also end NOW.  It is 
malicious, calculating and cruel.  The administration needs to apologize 
to the student body for the lock out.  And the faculty must also likewise 
make such apologies and rededicate themselves to the welfare of students 
which they ostentatiously venerate, instead of disrupting semesters for 
their pockets and egos.   And then you need to reschedule the lost weeks 
of real education.  You will need to figure out how to expense that, 
without putting it on the backs of students.  The students are the 
innocent bystanders here.  They are tied to the school because of a 
combination of student aid regulations, visa issue and other 
arraignments.  Whoever wins this labor dispute, in the end students lose.

FIX THIS MESS.


Ruben Safir
1580 East 19th Street
Apt 1E
Brooklyn, NY 11230

CC:  Ex Officer Kimberly Cline, Governor Cuomo, Paul Thompson NYS 
Department of Education, Liz Robbins NY Times, Dean Edward Rogoff

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