{"id":91911,"date":"2020-10-18T01:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuny-dean-quits-after-less-than-a-year-cites-workload-and-racism\/"},"modified":"2020-10-18T01:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:03:39","slug":"cuny-dean-quits-after-less-than-a-year-cites-workload-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuny-dean-quits-after-less-than-a-year-cites-workload-and-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"#CUNY dean quits after less than a year, cites workload and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#CUNY dean quits after less than a year, cites workload and racism<\/strong>”
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\n The dean of City College\u2019s architecture school has thrown in the towel after less than a year on the job, citing a \u201ccrippling workload\u201d and racism.<\/p>\n

Lesley Lokko, an architect who is also a best-selling author of erotic \u201cbonkbuster\u201d fiction, took the helm of the college\u2019s Spitzer School of Architecture in December 2019.<\/p>\n

She called her exit a \u201cprofound act of self-preservation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lack of meaningful support \u2014 not lip service, of which there\u2019s always a surfeit \u2014 meant my workload was absolutely crippling. No job is worth one\u2019s life and at times I genuinely feared for my own,\u201d Lokko said in a statement to Architectural Record.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lokko, who is of Scottish and Ghanaian descent, said in the statement that race also played a role. She was previously the director of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, which she founded in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cRace is never far from the surface of any situation in the U.S. Having come directly from South Africa, I wasn\u2019t prepared for the way it manifests in the U.S. and quite simply, I lacked the tools to both process and deflect it. The lack of respect and empathy for Black people, especially Black women, caught me off guard, although it\u2019s by no means unique to Spitzer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Lokko, whose salary is $230,000, is set to depart in January.<\/p>\n

She has written eight novels filled with love affairs and steamy plot lines since 2004, including \u201cA Private Affair\u201d and \u201cOne Secret Summer.\u201d She once told an interviewer that she \u201cenjoyed writing the sex scenes. It\u2019s great fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

Lokko declined to elaborate on her statement about City College, saying she did not want the attention to her departure to be an added distraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudent morale is at an all-time low, not just at Spitzer, but the loss of leadership makes it particularly difficult,\u201d Lokko said. \u201cMy focus is on making sure their educational experience is as fulfilling as possible under these tough circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time race has become an issue among administrators at Harlem\u2019s City College, the flagship school of the public City University of New York system.<\/p>\n

In June 2018, Michele Baptiste, the college\u2019s diversity dean who is black, said she became the third administrator to be fired by Vincent Boudreau, the school\u2019s president, in recent months. One of those let go was black and the other Hispanic.<\/p>\n

In another dean departure, Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, who headed the medical school, quit in February 2010 over a budget dispute.<\/p>\n

Boudreau, in a statement, said Lokko wanted to implement \u201ca vision of a new and reimagined architecture curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have been thrilled had she been able to see these changes through to their completion, but have accepted her resignation with deep regret,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Spitzer students, in a letter to Architectural Record,<\/a> said Lokko should have \u201cbetter incorporated\u201d their needs and desires.\n <\/div>\n

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“#CUNY dean quits after less than a year, cites workload and racism” The dean of City College\u2019s architecture school has thrown in the towel after less than a year on the job, citing a \u201ccrippling workload\u201d and racism. Lesley Lokko, an architect who is also a best-selling author of erotic \u201cbonkbuster\u201d fiction, took the helm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/LesleyLokko22.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[76135,71919,76239,72247,70948,4937],"class_list":["post-91911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-17-20","tag-architecture","tag-city-college","tag-cuny","tag-harlem","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}