TO: Dr. Lucian Yates, III Interim Provost and Vice President

FROM: Stashia L. Emanuel

DATE: February 8, 2021

RE: Letter of Appeal

Thank you for taking the time to review my dossier as submitted for early Tenure and Promotion. Per your decision, I am exercising my right to appeal your decision rendered on February 5, 2021.

Per your reasoning, I would like to address them as listed in the letter. As it relates to publications and with whom I published, I see no merit in your decision. At most universities and institutions of higher learning, collaborative scholarship is highly favored. Let me also say that singing out Interim Provost Yates and Dr. Roger Cleveland as co-authors on any publication is challenging my integrity as an author and as well as theirs. University Committee, let me ask you question? How do junior faculty members get published at major institutions? In most cases, junior faculty publishes with full professors no matter their position. So, you want me to be published and now you want to tell with whom to publish? Not only that, you never challenged in what journal I published, which is usually the case, nor the content of the publication and omit the fact that I have an international publication and presentation but the committee focused on with whom I published? I take direct offense to this decision and further more find it racially biased. Next, is a there rubric that was used to determine how many publications should have been included? Was the rubric used to as it relates to information presented? In comparison to other candidates that have received tenure and promotion in the past, what was the deficit of my dossier compared to theirs? In the three years I have been employed at Kentucky State University as an Assistant Professor, I have not seen or been exposed to faculty being a publication machine in peer-review journals but then again, the problem is with whom I published. Lastly, what does it mean that my scholarly contributions are not that of an Associate Professor when we have Assistant and Associate Professors at Kentucky State University that do not possess a terminal degree that have received tenure and also sitting on tenure and promotion committees voting on who should receive full professor but are not full professors themselves. How can one vote on what one should do or have done when they have not gone through the process?

My teaching has come into question as it relates to being a full-time professor teaching. Over the course of my teaching assignments, I have completed 10 years at the community college level. Now, my question is what difference does it make as long as teaching was done? The Faculty Handbook nor the guidelines speak nothing of what kind of teaching but just teaching. I have done that on the adjunct level. One can conclude that if my teaching was not satisfactory at those institutions, I would not have been brought back for 10 years at one school and then hired at