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of Law Dean Dr. Annette Clark resigned in protest over Biondi's transfer of more than $ 800,000 from law school funds to The
President's Opportunity Fund and over disputes with Biondi and Patankar about funding of law professors' academic research. Biondi and Patankar said that they had intended to fire Clark before her resignation. On the heels of Clark's resignation, campus dissension erupted with the release of Vice President Patankar's proposed policies on faculty evaluations which attempted to apply uniform metrics in evaluating faculty with diverse areas of expertise and weakened the status of tenure at Saint Louis University. The controversy over the proposed policies prompted a vote of no confidence by the Faculty Senate against Patankar—a vote upon which Biondi refused to act.
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Patankar's controversial and widely unsupported proposed policies regarding faculty evaluations. As the no confidence movement against Biondi grew, faculty voiced other grievances, including Biondi's disregard for shared governance, the
University's declining academic rankings, low alumni giving, and "a pervasive culture of fear." SLU's Student Government Association voted no-confidence in Biondi.
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President for Academic Affairs Manoj Patankar. In August 2012, the School
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Student Government Association passed a motion of no confidence in Biondi on March 30, 1999. Student or faculty governance bodies at SLU considered but did not finally act upon no-confidence measures in
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The timeline of Biondi's quarter-century of leadership at SLU shows the following major initiatives. In 1991 SLU opened
Missouri's first school of public health, known as Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice. In 1993 West Pine Boulevard that cuts across campus was
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October, 2012, the Faculty Council of the College of Arts and Science and then the University's Faculty Senate voted no confidence in Fr. Biondi. The primary reason for the votes of no confidence against Biondi was his continued support for Vice President-Academic Affairs Manoj Patankar and
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Biondi earned six degrees. His master's degree in linguistics (
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The Italian-American Child: His Sociolinguistic Acculturation
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A Comparative Study of Tagmemic and Stratificational Grammars
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