Rob Barron
CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT
"The fact that they were scheming...and knew that they had to hide some of this...speaks to the fact that there was consciousness of guilt"
Chris Hayes, MSNBC
PROFESSOR ROBERT BARRON'S 2018,
Promotion to Full Professor
In 2018, my CCNY Theatre Department colleagues once again ignored the CCN tenure/promotion guidelines.
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The CCNY Governance Plan clearly state that:
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“FACULTY TENURE, CCE, AND PROMOTION PROCEDURES
Promotion Procedures
…There shall be established in each department promotion committees to consider promotions for each rank, including full professor. All members of the department of higher rank shall be included on the promotions committee of a faculty member who applies for promotion. The department chairperson shall be the chairperson of each promotions committee…”
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My colleagues did not abide by the above-mentioned guidelines because I was not allowed to serve on Professor Barron’s 2018 promotion to full professor committee, in spite of the fact that I was a full professor at the time.​
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My colleagues hid the fact that Barron had been promoted to full professor from me for over five years. I inadvertently discovered his new rank in the summer of 2023.
When I eventually saw the cv that Barron submitted for his 2018 promotion to full professor, I was genuinely stunned by how he had shamelessly "embellished" his professional credentials with:​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Productions at low-level community theatres and bars;
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Productions whose running times were between 10 and 55 minutes long;
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Revivals of productions that were listed two and three times in his cv;
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CCNY productions done with his students;
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And other fraudulent, misleading, and unethical information.
"Did I embellish my resume? Yes I did and I am sorry."
George Santos
Keith Lee Grant
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A Personal Perspective
BARRON'S EMBELISHED DIRECTING CREDITS
BARRON'S PRODUCER/ACTOR CREDITS
SUMMATION
When you remove Barron's EMBELLISHED productions and plays etc., you are left with only:
2 unpublished plays:
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EVACUATION (unpublished play)
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PARENTABILITY (unpublished play)
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5 Children's Shows (50 minutes each):
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THE CAT IN THE HAT
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MISS NELSON IS MISSING
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ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, NO GOOD...
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ALEXANDER WHO'S NOT, NOT, NOT...
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RAMONA QUIMBY
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1 Producer credit: UNHEARD VOICES THE FROM AMERICAN THEATRE: A series of New Plays Curated by Rob Barron for the New Haarlem Arts Theatre on the CCNY campus in Aaron Davis Hall.
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Two unpublished plays, five fifty-minute children's shows and one producer credit do not qualify a candidate for a promotion to full professor at a Senior CUNY College.
"When you refuse to put in all of the details.... you are lying by omission..."
EPILOGUE
