Inside Higher Ed: A Campaign of Many Grievances
The petition lists no grievances. It hasn’t been posted publicly. Almost half the school’s tenured faculty signed it, and it has one demand: the removal of the dean.
But if a sizable contingent backed the campaign, they seemingly did so for their own reasons. Beyond the united front of a single document lay festering resentments, damaged egos and genuine fear — enough fear that not even tenured professors were willing to speak for attribution. At Washington University in St. Louis, the effort to unseat Dean Mary Sansalone may have stalled, but it revealed discontent within the School of Engineering that some attributed to a lack of faculty input during strategic planning processes, others called sexism and supporters characterized as knee-jerk resistance to necessary change.
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