{"id":2346,"date":"1972-04-20T00:57:21","date_gmt":"1972-04-20T04:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2018-10-29T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:58:32","slug":"hispanic-studies-professor-publishes-sophian-letter-questioning-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1972\/04\/20\/hispanic-studies-professor-publishes-sophian-letter-questioning-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Studies professor publishes Sophian letter questioning dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 1972<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic Studies professor publishes Sophian letter questioning dismissal<\/p>\n<p><i>After receiving a non-committal response from the Smith Board of Trustees, Hispanic Studies professor Carmen Suarez-Galban published a letter in the Sophian questioning the legitimacy of her dismissal from the department. She referenced a student petition and desire to keep her in the department, which had been responded to with the token offering of a student liaison program where the liaisons were chosen by the individual instructor. Professor Suarez-Galban defended her competency as an instructor and called for Hispanic Studies to value student opinion.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Liaisons attacked (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1972.04.20-Strike-alternatives-4_-Liaisons-attacked-4-e1540774619984.jpg\"><b><i>4<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1972.04.20-Is-college-meeting-%E2%80%9Clegit%E2%80%9D_-5_-Liaisons-attacked-5-e1540774598638.jpg\"><b><i>5<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 29, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 1972 Hispanic Studies professor publishes Sophian letter questioning dismissal After receiving a non-committal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[110,49],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","tag-110","tag-student-voices","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}