Excerpt from the WSU Guardian
During the public session of a Sept. 26 Board of Trustees meeting, a College of Nursing and Health alum and current student attended to get answers about the leave of Dr. Kristine Scordo.
In mid September Scordo was placed on paid leave for sending gun emojis in a text. The message was reported to General Counsel and police escorted her off campus.
Before going into executive session, the board members were approached by alum, Carol Griffith. She requested to join the meeting to speak on behalf of the ongoing situation in the Adult-Gerontological Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program, that Scordo teaches.
When Larry Chan, Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel, informed Griffin she would have to be on the agenda in order to speak before the board she pressed for time.
“Well, I think you guys still need to hear what her students are saying,” said Griffith before Trustee Fecher interjected to state she must be on the agenda before speaking. “You can be upset all you want but what you’ve done to her students and as a former student, what you have done to me.”
After Chan stated Griffith must be on the agenda to speak she asked to speak outside.
“Then I will follow you Dr. Chan. You did not bother to respond to my email or any of the other ones that were sent to you so when you guys are ready, I will gladly speak to you. I have several people who would like to put their input in as well,” said Griffith.
After the board went into its executive session Chan spoke with Griffith and a current student, LaDonna Josey in the hallway.
Josey and Griffith voiced their concerns and fears to Chan who directed them to contact the Interim Dean for the College of Nursing and Health, Deborah Ulrich.
