Spring 2011 (with Fall 2011 video update). The SFAI Administration (Interim President Roy Eisenhardt, Dean Jeannene Przyblyski, COO/CFO Espi Sanjana) and the Board of Trustees led by Chair Diane Frankel took it upon themselves to defend the acts of the past SFAI Administration.  The laid-off tenured faculty had clear reinstatement rights under their contract.  However, the current SFAI Administration failed to reinstate the laid-off faculty, despite public support for reinstatement and net surpluses.  Semester after semester went by with the current Administration choosing instead to re-hire visiting faculty and to hire new visiting faculty who had never taught at SFAI before to teach courses that the laid off faculty were well-qualified to teach. (Some of these new visiting faculty included former students of the laid-off faculty.)  The current SFAI Administration chose this unseemly path, while arranging to pay the big bucks (see video below) to their defense attorneys.  And they failed to offer the laid off faculty reinstatement as part of the recent settlement.

This is the result:

• SFAI students are even more likely to be taught by faculty who receive low pay and no benefits (hmm ... maybe this was the point);
• Less gay tenured faculty teaching at SFAI;
• Less women tenured faculty teaching at SFAI;
• Less older faculty (especially older women tenured faculty) teaching at SFAI;
• About 25% less tenured faculty members on campus.