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Killip says that Knowles and Taylor put the faculty in a impossible “catch-22” in which Phelan and her colleagues could not confront their accusers or even hear the charges against them, further aggravating an already strained relationship between VES faculty and staff.
One source suggested that the reason Knowles replaced Phelan in March instead of June was that he was he was concerned that if the staff all left because of the environment—as many had threatened—the department would stop functioning, and there was a risk that...
Phelan says that she may not have excelled in academic bureaucracy. “[Knowles] may have a point that I don’t know how to run a department,” she said. “Why would I? Have I come up through academia??...
When Knowles asked Phelan to resign, she says he accused her of financing “lavish dinners.” Phelan denies that financial mismanagement took place when she was chair.
Instead, she says, the complaints served as an excuse for Knowles to cut off the growth of VES. She speculates that Knowles wanted to run the VES department more like FAS’ more academic departments rather than as a group of practicing professionals.