Dr. Mike Dalecki
Dr. Dalecki was the Interim Chair of the Criminal Justice Department of UW Platteville from Aug 2013 to Aug 2015. During that time, he mercilessly retaliated against my wife. I am not a fan of Dr. Dalecki.
One of the many things Dr. Mike Dalecki did to my wife was to isolate her from supporters in the department. Here is a short story that describes one of his attempts to isolate Sabina.
Dr. Mike Dalecki “mentors” a graduate student (or did
he “threaten” the student?)
In Nov 2014 Deb Rice, an adjunct
instructor at UW Platteville, spread false rumors about my Sabina. A graduate student who had been hired to work
with Sabina heard these rumors directly from Deb Rice and he told Sabina about
the statements he heard. Sabina asked HR
director Lohmann to get Rice to stop spreading false rumors about her. The HR director told Dr. Dalecki about the
issue and Dr. Dalecki agreed with HR Director Lohmann that something must be
done to stop Rice from spreading false rumors about Dr. Burton.
But instead of calling in Deb Rice
to tell her to stop spreading false rumors Dr. Dalecki called in the graduate
student.
Below is a list of quotes that Dr.
Dalecki said to the student in that meeting.
Dr. Dalecki contends he was “mentoring” the grad student. I believe he was threatening the grad student. I’m interested in what you think. Please listen to the audio and read the
transcript and answer the short one question survey below.
“In the long run, that stuff, it will come back and will
ultimately to haunt you either in terms of people will no longer include you,
or, uh, or who knows what.”
“I think the politics are a sign of a dysfunctional
department not a functional one, but that’s being addressed and I’ve been
working on it for a year and a half and we’re not done.”
“There’s nothing you’re going to do that’s gonna make a
difference except that if something explodes in the face you’ll get hit by
shrapnel.”
“If they knew what the chair knew then they would, in some
cases, shut the hell up.”
“This is sort of a mentoring conversation between you and
I, um. No one else is privy to it and it’s
not a designed to be a horrific kind of thing but rather to be little bit of
advice. And I recall when I was a master’s student like you I made a mistake
and rather than cut me off at the legs and let me crawl away bleeding I was
given a chance to demonstrate that it was a one-time affair.”
“In the end you will get caught in the shrapnel. Because the explosion that occurred and I’ve
been in departments where they do occur and some where they don’t occur. They’re never pleasant and never particularly
functional.”
“The side you
should cast your lot in with is the person who is paying you.”
“I’ve been in departments where you didn’t turn your back
because you didn’t know who was going to plunge a knife into it.”
“This department’s had issues, I’m not here because it’s an
accident. The Dean didn’t just suddenly
say “oh boy let’s change chairs.”
Anybody who’s got enough experience in either politics or academia or
anything else knows that those things don’t just happen.”
Dr. Mike Dalecki talking to a grad
student in Dalecki’s office - 15 minute talk -
(Audio
of the meeting), (Transcript of the meeting)
“Upon listening to the transaction it appears to be mentoring rather than punitive or threatening.” (Biased Investigation Report (RoterInvestigationReport-3-4-17), (Rebuttal-RoterReport3-4-17))