Reading the names of people who targeted him it seems like a case of cronyism in academia
Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
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Re: Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
#92This is so sad. HowStuffWorks had a huge impact on me as a teenager.
Re: Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
#93> Brain’s complaint contained allegations of wrongdoing... regarding repurposing the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program meeting space to accommodate a new hire.. “What came back was a sickening nuclear bomb of retaliation the likes of which could not be believed” "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
My thoughts exactly. It was all about campus real estate! A room with a view.
I don’t understand how it escalated to this?
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#94I received my engineering masters from NC State, but not this department (I was in the Industrial & Systems Eng. dept, in the IMSE program: https://imsei.ncsu.edu/ ). That said, my program was intentionally broad & flexible because students seeking higher ed in manufacturing engineering might be EEs, MEs, CS undergrads, or something entirely different and could be pursuing any sort of leadership role in a manufacturi…
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#95sounds like typical high school bullying except by adults and so-called professionals. how does a disagreement between two turn into multiple departments jumping in for one side?
I wish he took more time to heal emotionally. He might have seen this was not a place he wanted to work.
I've been in two situations like this where I eventually "WON". You don't simply heal. You don't accept that that just wasn't the place for you and move on. What you do is have your perspective on other humans permanently and irrevocably changed. If you are a certain kind of person who values truth and personal responsibility, you come to understand that the world is fundamentally incompatible with you, and are faced with the choice of living a meaningful life where you are constantly preyed upon and abused, or living a meaningless existence in which you betray everything you ever valued about yourself.
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#96"
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Must be a skeevy website to just rather not have me than not spy on me
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#97His story is a cautionary tale about real life vs idealism. The two come into conflict frequently, and sometimes violently. Nothing is more difficult or dangerous than holding power to account; the mechanisms we imagine are in place to hold power accountable exist purely in that imagination. The personal feelings of shame, guilt, or ethical responsibility we imagine there to be, or the social pressure brought to bear…
Yep. I often reflect on some of my career mistakes, especially when evaluating current decisions within the context of a job or interacting with other institutions, and what I wish I'd learnt earlier would be to "read a room". Sure, there is technically a process for reporting wrongdoing, but there's no process for reporting wrongdoing and keeping your job, and keeping your job is more important. What isn't your job…
Sounds like 1981. Good luck with that.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. I often reflect on some of my career mistakes, especially when evaluating current decisions within the context of a job or interacting with other institutions, and what I wish I'd learnt earlier would be to "read a room". Sure, there is technically a process for reporting wrongdoing, but there's no process for reporting wrongdoing and keeping your job, and keeping your job is more important. What isn't your job…
It’s more nuanced then that. People don’t want others pretending to be superior to them, if they are not actually that much better. e.g. A literal supergenius can behave very erratically nearly every week of the year, 40 years straight, and still achieve notable successes in life, such as Kurt Godel But a regular genius pretending to be a literal supergenius and trying to do the same, is well at best going to be perc…
How does this have anything to do with standing up to harms? Im sorry this is starting to sound like the philosophy that the Nazi regime operated under.
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#99My son wants to be a mathematician. I told him never go into academia because it's a pit of poisonous vipers, administrators and professors both. I'm going to send him this article to hopefully re-indoctrinate him in case he forgot my previous message.
Would you consider sending him the seemingly thousands of academics who aren't poisonous vipers who are quite happy to be in academia?
Re: Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
#100I received my engineering masters from NC State, but not this department (I was in the Industrial & Systems Eng. dept, in the IMSE program: https://imsei.ncsu.edu/ ). That said, my program was intentionally broad & flexible because students seeking higher ed in manufacturing engineering might be EEs, MEs, CS undergrads, or something entirely different and could be pursuing any sort of leadership role in a manufacturi…
Other funders too.
2022, https://ece.ncsu.edu/2022/misra-named-to-darpa-microsystems-... & https://ece.ncsu.edu/2022/veena-misra-awarded-alexander-quar...
> (DARPA) has named Dr. Veena Misra to the Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC) for a three-year term.. total funding with Misra either as a PI or a mission-critical Co-PI exceeds $59 million.
2023, https://ece.ncsu.edu/2023/department-head-dan-stancil-to-ste... & https://engr.ncsu.edu/news/2024/05/10/misra-named-head-of-de...
> After 14 years of outstanding leadership as head of our Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Dan Stancil will be stepping down from his position.. Veena Misra.. named Interim Head.. [May 2024] Veena Misra has been named as the permanent head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at North Carolina State University.