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The UT-Tyler Bully Tree A Look at the Admin Resources Bearing Down on KSJ Following the new USMNEWS.net series detailing the misery that is enveloping former UT-Tyler student advisor/instructor Karen St. John -- (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

Special Report Series The Ghosts of Christmas 2010 Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 7 By mid-December of 2010, St. John had become the target of a new bully (see part 6 in this series), assistant professor Kerri Keech, pictured below.Click here for Part I; Part II; Part III ; Part IV; Part V; Part VI (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

Dear usmnews.net, Dear USM News, Your reader’s connection of Frank Pickering’s older case in Hattiesburg against Harold Doty to the situation now confronting Mrs. [Karen] St. John in Tyler, TX at the same hands (of Doty) is a stroke of brilliance. I’m guessing that your readers from east TX know little, if anything, about Pickering’s claim against Doty, the one dealing with lewd comments made by Doty in regard to Pickering’s wife.

Special Report Series Cloudy with a Chance of Mobbing, Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Again, Part 8 The insert above indicates that, in giving St. John only 24 hours to respond to the “intent to terminate” letter delivered to her on 21-Dec-2010 by UT-Tyler (see part 7 in this series), the east Texas-based institution had violated the employee handbook (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

Special Report Series ‘Oh Yes, Wait a Minute Mr. Postman’ Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 9 As the previous installment in this series indicates, St. John was forced by UT-Tyler officials to sign a termination letter in late December-2010. This installment picks up the story on 13-Jan-2011, when St. John informed Joe Vorsas, UT-Tyler’s human resources director, that she desired to appeal her termination. Click here for Part I; Part II; Part III ; Part IV; Part V; Part VI; Part VII; Part VIII (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

GH Chatter (June 2008) CoB faculty have been talking about the so-called "resignations" of former CoB Dean Harold Doty, and Doty's Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand, since the day they occurred (9-April-07).

Michala’s Ledger HOW FAR BACK MIGHT A POTENTIAL ACADEMIC SCANDAL GO? A Guest Column The new USMNEWS.net Special Report Series on the mobbing of Karen St. John by former CoB dean Harold Doty and other University of Texas at Tyler administrators and faculty touches upon any number of hot-button issues regarding higher education administration.

Ethics Update, October 2007 Meat & Potatoes "CoB Ethics" Thirteen days after the event occurred, Interim Dean Alvin Williams concluded his investigation of the so-called "Doty incident." As reported by usmnews.net, former CoB Dean Harold Doty threatened economics professor Franklin Mixon in the Greene Hall corridors on 28-Sept-07.