Remaining Problems regarding the Prof. De Canio case
Date:
Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:14:27 -0700
To:
Kao Chiang
CC:
moe
President Kao Chiang,
National Cheng Kung University
cc: Ministry of Education
Department of Higher Education
9 July 2003
Dear President Kao
As you know, I have written several previous email letters
concerning unresolved issues regarding National Cheng Kung
University's illegal dismissal of me in 1999. I have not received a
satisfactory response concerning any of these issues (the
first previous email, summing up all the issues, appears below).
First, apart from the original human rights violatioins,
administrative remedy that takes this long is unacceptable. Most of
these issues can be resolved in days rather than months.
The Lily Chen case remains formally unresolved, since I have not
yet received an apology.
The matter of the review meeting convened on a plagiarism
accusation that had already been rejected on Ministry appeal
(8 January 2001), is also unresolved, since I have not received an
official document that this meeting has been annulled. I
remind you, as I pointed out in my first email and on previous
occasions, that to revive an issue already rejected on appeal
is to undermine the very purpose of the appeal process. Therefore I
urge you, one final time, to respond, plainly, whether
that meeting has been annulled. If I do not receive a positive response
by the end of this week, I shall seek legal remedies
outside the university, as is my right.
The case of just compensation for losses suffered in the four years
that this case lasted has also not been completely
resolved, including court and travel costs, full back pay, and annual
increments and interest.
I remind you that despite constant warnings by Faculty Union and
MOE officials, the university continued to defy laws,
moral principles, and common sense for more than four years, at the
expense of taxpayers as well as myself and our
colleagues, while harming the reputation of our university. As
president of our university, you should be committed, above
all, to upholding the reputation of our university according to moral
principles and laws. Only by resolving these issues
quickly will we be acting in the best interests of our university. I am
not willing to wait much longer to resolve these issues
within the university.
Sincerely
Professor Richard de Canio
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Cheng Kung University
(06) 237 8626
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