History of Events Leading to MotherFunctor®.org
MotherFunctor.org is a website founded by mathematicians to promote campus activism in general, with special emphasis on freedom of information and freedom of speech in colleges and universities.
The specific motivation for the creation of MotherFunctor.org stems from a decade-long series of events and actions by officials at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including university administrators, lawyers and auditors. This is a first-hand, personal account of what happened to one faculty member when he Questioned Authority in his department and college. The purpose of this chronicle is twofold: first, to set the record straight, so that friends, colleagues and campus community members may see the succession of incidents in context (including the original documents); and second, to warn fellow members of the academic community of what they might expect if they choose to speak out, to request documents, or to otherwise Question Authority.
(Some MF readers may be inclined to think these incidents are isolated, and are not representative of the current Georgia Tech Administration. Such readers are urged to compare the findings of the Georgia Attorney General concerning diversion of state funds and "a lack of institutional control over travel decisions and expense reimbursement procedures" in this story, with the recent unprecedented probation, public reprimand, and censure of Georgia Tech by the NCAA. The NCAA cited Georgia Tech for "a non-debatable lack of institutional control" over its athletics program, where certification of athletes' substandard academic records apparently occurred at four successive levels of the administration, including the Registrar. [Click here and here to see articles].)
Since the MotherFunctor.org Staff are movie aficionados, we have outlined the following chronology with popular film titles.
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