Ave Prof Complains to DOE / Embassy
Tue, Jun05, 2007 - Category: University
Add another professor to the ever-growing list of
employees and students who have filed formal
complaints against the practices of Ave Maria
University.
This professor joined Ave Maria University Latin American Campus (AMULAC; Nicaragua) in 2006 as a Full Professor and future Academic Dean, so she thought. Written contracts, however, were not issued to new faculty until two months after their arrival in Nicaragua. New faculty were put on a bus, driven to Managua and shown their contracts while locked in the bus. It was there that faculty were surprised to learn that they were hired as instructors and that "employment-at-will" clauses were written into their contracts.
This professor has over thirty years of teaching and administrative experience with institutions in both the U.S. and abroad. She claims that remuneration and benefits for her contract with AMULAC run until September, 2007. Yet, on May 15, 2007, AMULAC cancelled her medical insurance policy without explanation. The professor is now being told that AMU has not reinstated her policy and has no intention of taking any action on the matter. A charge has been filed with the Florida Department of Education concerning the matter.
Back in May, the professor claims that she had difficulty leaving Nicaragua on her arranged flight out of the country. According to her, "It was only after I e-mailed the American Embassy and a local law firm that administration mysteriously" was able to honor her departure. She told the Embassy "I will not be held hostage in Nicaragua."
Sadly, the irregularities continue in Tom Monaghan's Banana Republic, in the tradition of Ave Maria's twisted concept of Catholic social teaching.
UPDATE, 6/6/06 - One day after the release of this story, AveWatch is pleased to announce that the professor's insurance issue was resolved to her satisfaction by AMULAC late yesterday.
Light disinfects.
This professor joined Ave Maria University Latin American Campus (AMULAC; Nicaragua) in 2006 as a Full Professor and future Academic Dean, so she thought. Written contracts, however, were not issued to new faculty until two months after their arrival in Nicaragua. New faculty were put on a bus, driven to Managua and shown their contracts while locked in the bus. It was there that faculty were surprised to learn that they were hired as instructors and that "employment-at-will" clauses were written into their contracts.
This professor has over thirty years of teaching and administrative experience with institutions in both the U.S. and abroad. She claims that remuneration and benefits for her contract with AMULAC run until September, 2007. Yet, on May 15, 2007, AMULAC cancelled her medical insurance policy without explanation. The professor is now being told that AMU has not reinstated her policy and has no intention of taking any action on the matter. A charge has been filed with the Florida Department of Education concerning the matter.
Back in May, the professor claims that she had difficulty leaving Nicaragua on her arranged flight out of the country. According to her, "It was only after I e-mailed the American Embassy and a local law firm that administration mysteriously" was able to honor her departure. She told the Embassy "I will not be held hostage in Nicaragua."
Sadly, the irregularities continue in Tom Monaghan's Banana Republic, in the tradition of Ave Maria's twisted concept of Catholic social teaching.
UPDATE, 6/6/06 - One day after the release of this story, AveWatch is pleased to announce that the professor's insurance issue was resolved to her satisfaction by AMULAC late yesterday.
Light disinfects.