University Corruption
Dr. Sabina Burton was unfairly fired.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.- Martin Luther King Jr.'
Dr. Burton was a tenured professor at UW Platteville, and is a mother of two young ladies who graduated from the UW System. One of her female students brought to her attention an act that appeared to be sexual harassment by a male professor. Burton brought the matter to the attention of then Dean Elizabeth Throop, for which Burton received retaliation. She filed a grievance regarding the retaliation and her grievance was heard by a properly formed grievance committee. The committee found in Burton's favor, but their findings were "changed" by the administration to make it appear that both parties were equally at fault.
Dr. Burton filed more grievances but she was never given another grievance hearing as required by policy. Instead, Chancellor Shields initiated dismissal proceedings against Burton based on fabrications. The proceedings violated policy, state law, and federal law in many ways. Burton alleges felony forgery and perjury, among many other violations of her rights. Read the timeline for specifics.
We are petitioning the Faculty Senate of UW Platteville to conduct an open investigation into the violations of Dr. Burton's due process rights regarding her grievances and her appeal. We are asking that the hearings be open to the pubic and advertised to ensure all interested parties are aware of the hearings. The faculty senate's findings should lead to Dr. Burton's reinstatement because clearly, her due process right were violated.
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As a symbolic gesture we are petitioning to get the last word of the UW Platteville Alma Mater song changed from "Loyalty" to "Integrity."
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We are also petitioning to get the employees of the UW System to provide union representation so the universities stop firing good teachers for political reasons and replacing them with cronies and half-wits.
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Ever Wonder why so many girls get raped in college?
This story shows how UW Platteville, led by Chancellor Dennis J. Shields, covered up a case of sexual harassment by harassing and firing Dr. Burton on trumped up charges. Let's fix this problem together.
Require the UW Platteville faculty senate to review the grievance and appeal hearing processes that led to Dr. Burton’s dismissal to determine whether any rules and/or laws were violated.
If the Faculty Senate determines that any rules were broken they should send a recommendation to the Chancellor, and the Chancellor should send a recommendation to the Board of Regents requesting that Dr. Burton receive an apology and be reinstated to her position, with back pay.
Help us get Dr. Burton back in a classroom where she belongs. Let her teach your kids about critical thinking and spearhead a revolution in ethics in education.
The last word of the UW Platteville Alma Mater song is “Loyalty.” Let’s change it to “integrity.” This will help bring awareness to corruption and demonstrate that citizens, students, and faculty want administration officials to value truth and honor over loyalty to corrupt officials.
We want to help re-invigorate a strong teacher’s union for the UW System. Employees need it. You cannot expect the administration to follow the rules. You need a union to ensure they do. Rules are pointless, in a corrupt environment, without enforcement.
Why Are We Doing This?
The current state of government in America warrants resistance, not only to high level politicians, but also to lower level authorities. Let’s identify liars and get them out of every level of politics, starting with the schools that shape the minds of our youth. This is something each of us can do. Sign a petition.
This is a simple way to punch up! Make them blink at lower levels and push the momentum to higher levels. We fought this battle alone while observers were justifiably afraid of losing their jobs if they questioned authority. We lost because we were alone. We are trying it again, hoping for grass roots support. Please sign the petitions and help us right the ship.
Why Are We Doing This?
Shields responded: “… a meeting has been scheduled …this petition started without the respect and courtesy of speaking with me directly… some of the supposed facts surrounding the efforts made by the university to address the issue of sexual assault … are either incomplete or inaccurate. There have been a number of actions taken by the university under my leadership to address these issues… in my view the petition was started without the effort to be fully informed …. The lack of any effort to contact me directly before engaging … creates an opportunity to learn…”
This is an example of the vague and intimidating double speak we also got from then Chancellor Shields. Sounds a bit like our current national leadership, doesn’t it. Higher level corruption allows and protects lower level corruption. Lower level corruption mimics higher level corruption. We want to root out corruption from all levels, starting at UW Platteville.
Why Are We Doing This?
We spent over a half million dollars of our personal nest egg to battle this in court. We took our first lawsuit to the US Supreme Court, but they did not review it. The establishment tries to keep dissenters isolated and bleed them of their resources, sanity, and health.
We were outgunned the whole way. We took on the Attorney General Pro Se because we ran out of money after hiring five different attorneys at various times. The system is designed to make it impossible for a weaker party to prevail.
We learned between 2012 and 2019 what the rest of America is learning now, that corrupt officials do not play fair, and you cannot win if you are alone. It requires a community coming together to support one another.
We know of two other female professors who were abused this way, and both of their husbands died, largely because of the stress. One of the professors told me, with intense sincerity, that the university “murdered” her husband with stress. I believe her.
Why Are We Doing This?
Initially, we fought because we wanted to protect young women in colleges from sexual harassment and rape. But our efforts uncovered severe corruption. This corruption is what fuels not only rape, but wealth inequality, racism, fascism, and all manner of other isms. Corruption destroyed the environment at Chernobyl. It will destroy the entire world if good people do nothing.
We are entering perilous times. We have a small window of opportunity to effect change to get corruption out of government. It is time to push this matter and make it public. Please share this website with your friends and sign the petitions.
You can see the story and all our evidence on our Public Timeline.
This timeline contains hyperlinks to evidence we collected to prove each statement. There are a number of broken links currently. I will try to fix them as time goes on. If there is a document you would like to see – let me know and I’ll try to get it to you.
Roger Burton, Dr. Burton’s husband, built this website and the timelines. Timelines are generally written in first person as though Dr. Sabina Burton were speaking, but it was written by me, her husband. Files in the private section are not available to the public. If you would like to see a file with “priv” in the url let me know an I will see if I can release it to you.
Dr. Roter, former chancellor of UW Whitewater, conducted the investigation into the allegations against Dr. Burton. Dr. Burton tried to asked for Dr. Roter to sign the investigation report to prove she wrote it, but Roter had vanished. She ghosted us. We asked that the investigator come to the appeal hearing so we could demonstrate the fallacy of the report, but Dr. Roter never showed up. The university probably never gave her the request. She never answered any of our emails. We were not given any opportunity to show that the report was not written by Dr. Roter. If it was written by her then she committed a grave injustice. Go to the Public Timeline and search for “Roter” to get the story. Listen to the audio of the investigation meeting and compare it to the investigation report.
(A41a-PetraRoter-Burton-interview-transcript).
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(RoterInvestigationReport-3-4-17) Keep in mind that we allege that this report was not written by Dr. Roter, but that Chancellor Shields altered Roter’s original report to support his recommendation to the UW System Board of Regents that Dr. Burton be fired. This is an allegation of felony forgery, which we do not make lightly or without evidence. Here is our rebuttal to the fraudulent (and likely forged) report: Rebuttal-RoterReport3-4-17.
If anyone knows where Dr. Roter is please put us in contact with her. Maybe we can set the record straight with a simple discussion. The faculty senate should contact her as part of their investigation and ask her to verify the report’s authenticity and answer why she created such a biased report, under oath, if she did write it. My guess is that she will refuse to talk about it at all. She will try to hide. We should not let her hide. She can prove Chancellor Shields committed fraud, forgery, and perjury simply by verifying that she did not write the report. Does anyone know where Dr. Petra Roter is?