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From: Richard John <rdca25@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Regarding Human Rights Abuses at National Cheng Kung University, a Purdue exchange university
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22 November 2011
Dear Purdue Exponent,
I've contacted the president of Purdue University, France A. Córdova; Purdue's Board of Regents; and the Indiana State Board of Education about long-standing human rights issues with Purdue's exchange university, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), but to no avail.
AfterTaiwan's Ministry of Education (MOE) reversed my illegal dismissal, NCKU refused to enforce that ruling for nearly two and a half years, despite ten warning letters from the MOE spelling out human rights principles (attached).
Though NCKU participated in the appeal, and held its own bogus appeal hearings, once it lost it argued "foreigners" (I'm American) had no right to appeal. The university has refused to make a formal apology or remedy.
Instead, in March of this year, and despite the plain language of court and MOE rulings (attached), the university whitewashed the illegal dismissal on its official web page, claiming I was "declined for employment renewal" and that "legal procedures were carefully observed." This was signed by current NCKU president, Hwung-Hweng Hwung. Yet the MOE plainly stated the dismissal was "not done through legal dismissal procedures" (attached).
I don't believe Purdue, or other US universities, should maintain academic exchanges on a basis of contempt for due process of law, human rights, administrative duplicity, and misrepresentation of facts based on official government rulings (attached). I don't believe American universities should tolerate disrespect of American faculty in Taiwan.
NCKU faculty know of this case. They were protected by rights and laws when they matriculated or taught in our country. But they allow their administration to deny rights to American faculty in Taiwan.
The English-language Taiwan press has ignored my numerous letters, though it's vocal about human rights abuses in Mainland China.
So far the only reply I've received was from a Purdue official in July, more than two years ago:
7/25/09
Dear Professor Canio,
Thank you for your email.
Although I empathize with you, this institution is not in the position to comment on your statements.
Sincerely,
[Name redacted]
But these email attachments are not "statements." They are official documents proving human rights abuses at NCKU.
Perhaps terminating academic exchanges with NCKU is not an easy decision to make. But neither was exposing sex offenses at Penn State.
Sincerely,
Richard de Canio
Tainan, Taiwan
(886) (06) 237 8626
From: Richard John <rdca25@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Regarding Human Rights Abuses at National Cheng Kung University, a Purdue exchange university
To: editor@purdueexponent.org, features@purdueexponent.org, newsadviser@purdueexponent.org, help@purdueexponent.org
Cc: webmaster@doe.in.gov, ienmary@aol.com, jennifers@che.in.gov, kens@che.in.gov, info@indianahumanities.org, nconner@indianahumanities.org, pbates@umich.edu, emimms@umich.edu, todd.zoellick@ed.gov, kristine.cohn@ed.gov, trustees@purdue.edu, president@purdue.edu
22 November 2011
Dear Purdue Exponent,
I've contacted the president of Purdue University, France A. Córdova; Purdue's Board of Regents; and the Indiana State Board of Education about long-standing human rights issues with Purdue's exchange university, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), but to no avail.
AfterTaiwan's Ministry of Education (MOE) reversed my illegal dismissal, NCKU refused to enforce that ruling for nearly two and a half years, despite ten warning letters from the MOE spelling out human rights principles (attached).
Though NCKU participated in the appeal, and held its own bogus appeal hearings, once it lost it argued "foreigners" (I'm American) had no right to appeal. The university has refused to make a formal apology or remedy.
Instead, in March of this year, and despite the plain language of court and MOE rulings (attached), the university whitewashed the illegal dismissal on its official web page, claiming I was "declined for employment renewal" and that "legal procedures were carefully observed." This was signed by current NCKU president, Hwung-Hweng Hwung. Yet the MOE plainly stated the dismissal was "not done through legal dismissal procedures" (attached).
I don't believe Purdue, or other US universities, should maintain academic exchanges on a basis of contempt for due process of law, human rights, administrative duplicity, and misrepresentation of facts based on official government rulings (attached). I don't believe American universities should tolerate disrespect of American faculty in Taiwan.
NCKU faculty know of this case. They were protected by rights and laws when they matriculated or taught in our country. But they allow their administration to deny rights to American faculty in Taiwan.
The English-language Taiwan press has ignored my numerous letters, though it's vocal about human rights abuses in Mainland China.
So far the only reply I've received was from a Purdue official in July, more than two years ago:
7/25/09
Dear Professor Canio,
Thank you for your email.
Although I empathize with you, this institution is not in the position to comment on your statements.
Sincerely,
[Name redacted]
But these email attachments are not "statements." They are official documents proving human rights abuses at NCKU.
Perhaps terminating academic exchanges with NCKU is not an easy decision to make. But neither was exposing sex offenses at Penn State.
Sincerely,
Richard de Canio
Tainan, Taiwan
(886) (06) 237 8626
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