2008 Woodie Awards
OUR VIEW: Bureaucracy should not allow professor to keep job
AT?ISSUE:? Considering recent criminal charges and history of calling 911 while drunk, Ball State should eliminate red tape in order to fire ISOM professor
The pride of Ball State University is walking the streets of Muncie, not behind bars and still getting a paycheck.
For 21 years, tenured associate professor George Mundrake has taught students while having a history of calling 911 dispatchers while drunk. Arrested on April 26, Mundrake's drinking history roared to a crescendo after he was charged with sexually assaulting a student, who sat in a car bleeding from his face after the incident, according to 911 and Muncie police officials.
So why does he still have a job after all his history?
The university has to care about the safety of its students with a professor such as this on staff.
If nothing is done, it only gives future professors a green light to be belligerent. Imagine taking a class with Mundrake if the university doesn't fire him. You could be listening to his lecture while thinking of how he was charged with assaulting a fellow student, or maybe of his silly mug shot. At least another professor proctored his final so students didn't have to go through that.
The university has to set an example and nip this problem in the bud. What Mundrake did was stupid, but if the university keeps him here, they are equally at fault.
Mundrake is set to teach classes for the second session of Summer Semester, but he really doesn't need to be here. He could be a shining example of Education Redefined if he did teach. Students could be taught by someone who police say sexually assaulted a student.
Mundrake was released on $7,000 bond and is on a non-disciplinary suspension, but he still gets paid. Now, the university has to go through an involved bureaucratic process to do the correct and easy thing.
Mundrake has to have a conference with the dean of the Miller College of Business. Within 30 days, the dean can recommend to the provost whether to keep or get rid of Mundrake. Afterward, the case could go before the Provost, University Senate's Judicial Committee and the Board of Trustees.
For 21 years, tenured associate professor George Mundrake has taught students while having a history of calling 911 dispatchers while drunk. Arrested on April 26, Mundrake's drinking history roared to a crescendo after he was charged with sexually assaulting a student, who sat in a car bleeding from his face after the incident, according to 911 and Muncie police officials.
So why does he still have a job after all his history?
The university has to care about the safety of its students with a professor such as this on staff.
If nothing is done, it only gives future professors a green light to be belligerent. Imagine taking a class with Mundrake if the university doesn't fire him. You could be listening to his lecture while thinking of how he was charged with assaulting a fellow student, or maybe of his silly mug shot. At least another professor proctored his final so students didn't have to go through that.
The university has to set an example and nip this problem in the bud. What Mundrake did was stupid, but if the university keeps him here, they are equally at fault.
Mundrake is set to teach classes for the second session of Summer Semester, but he really doesn't need to be here. He could be a shining example of Education Redefined if he did teach. Students could be taught by someone who police say sexually assaulted a student.
Mundrake was released on $7,000 bond and is on a non-disciplinary suspension, but he still gets paid. Now, the university has to go through an involved bureaucratic process to do the correct and easy thing.
Mundrake has to have a conference with the dean of the Miller College of Business. Within 30 days, the dean can recommend to the provost whether to keep or get rid of Mundrake. Afterward, the case could go before the Provost, University Senate's Judicial Committee and the Board of Trustees.
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Corporal Punishment
posted 5/12/08 @ 11:52 AM EST
As an employee of this university, I'm appalled that this individual has not been fired yet. If I did anything like this, I would have been fired immediately. (Continued…)
BSUalum
posted 5/12/08 @ 6:55 PM EST
Obviously the DN knows he's only been charged and not convicted at this point, considering that word was mentioned more than once.
How about you wait until he is tried and found guilty before you call for the firing of this dolt. (Continued…)
Corporal Punishment
posted 5/13/08 @ 9:34 AM EST
Maybe he would deserve waiting until being found guilty, if he hadn't had all the previous problems.
This guy is an embarrassment to the university. (Continued…)
Jonathan Lavery
posted 5/14/08 @ 4:03 PM EST
Why is it that Ball State, when it comes to booting employees for wrongdoing of any kind, has to go through all this red tape & hoop jumping? I mean, how hard is it for the higher-ups to give George Mundrake his walking papers, the pink slip that says he's fired?
It does not matter if he has tenure or if he doesn't have tenure: the fact of the matter is that he landed in jail for various offenses, two of them being fighting with police & battery. (Continued…)
In a PERFECT WORLD!
posted 8/26/08 @ 8:07 AM EST
--I guess BSU faculty and staff MUST be perfect in order to remain employed?!
--Professors and Instructors are humans as well! Come on, it's unrealistic to expect perfection from anyone even if they are employed at BSU!
--If he had been warned before, then fine, fire him. (Continued…)
Lu Feng
posted 8/26/08 @ 1:39 PM EST
In this you are correct, other places yes, here, no.....if wishes were fishes...but whales are mamals.
You have the lawsuit thing backwords, BSU has been sued out the anus which is why they don't. (Continued…)
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