Talk:Jonathan Veitch

Notability

How is this guy not notable? He's a current college president, and many current college presidents have their own entries. Plus, he has also written some books. Purplebackpack89 (talk) 06:21, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

134.69.4.156's edits

134.69.4.156, which is an Occidental College IP range, apparently copied the article directly from an Oxy web page, [1]. Comparing his last edit and the text there, they are virtually the same. We need to change it up a little, and add more outside/non-Oxy references. Probably when he's invested on the 24th, there will be an article about him in the LA Times.

Purplebackpack89 (talk) 23:18, 6 October 2009 (UTC), an Oxy student and the guy who started the Veitch article in first place

Well, my suggestion is to revert back to this revision. It's clear enough that 134.69.4.156 has added the copyrighted material. Minimac (talk) 21:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Done Purplebackpack89 21:39, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Controversy over handling of sexual misconduct cases at Occidental

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Proposed updates

I'm User:Edgewood2048 and I work at Occidental College. This bio doesn't appear to have had any significant updates in at least three years. To make it more up-to-date and less random, I’d like to propose some additions. I have used the wiki bios of other liberal arts college presidents as a model, including Carolyn “Biddy” Martin of Amherst; Valerie Smith of Swarthmore; and Clayton Spencer of Bates. However, I want to make sure that I follow WP:COI and gather as much consensus for these changes as possible. So I'm posting my proposals here to solicit input. All proposed additions are in bold.

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Early Life and Education Second paragraph: Clarify he attended Loyola HS in Los Angeles, and add a little biographical detail: Veitch attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles before he received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in English and American Literature. After graduation, he traveled across the country for a year, working on a dairy farm in Nebraska, on a Mississippi tugboat, and loading fish in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Source: https://peterholslin.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/jonathan-veitch-dean-of-eugene-lang-college-will-step-down/, accessed 3 January 2018. He later received his doctoral degree in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University.[1] Career Second paragraph: Clarify that Eugene Lang College is part of The New School, and add a sentence about his five years there: Veitch was named dean of the New School’s Eugene Lang College in 2004. During his four years as dean, he was credited with expanding the ranks of the college’s full-time faculty, and creating new partnerships with New York cultural institutions and civic engagement programs. Source: https://peterholslin.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/jonathan-veitch-dean-of-eugene-lang-college-will-step-down/ accessed 3 January 2018. He stepped down to become president of Occidental College in 2009.[4] Occidental College As has been done with Martin, Smith and Spencer, I propose the creation of a “Major Initiatives” section to give a fuller account of the Veitch presidency. Major initiatives After a two-year consultative process initiated by Veitch, Occidental approved a new five-year strategic plan in 2012 that laid out such goals as greater engagement with Los Angeles; curricular innovation; diversity and access; fostering a cosmopolitan campus culture; and improving students’ living and learning environment. Sources: http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2016/01/01/veitchs-vision-focuses-on-occidentals-urban-location/2881173; https://www.oxy.edu/magazine/summer-2012/rolling-deep accessed 3 January 2017 Los Angeles Veitch has overseen the cultivation of partnerships with local institutions such as the Huntington Library, the Autry Museum of the West, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and regional theaters including A Noise Within. Sources: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=15035; https://www.oxy.edu/news/native-american-expert-joins-faculty; https://www.oxy.edu/undergraduate-research-center/academic-year-opportunities/jet-propulsion-laboratory-internship; http://www.anoisewithin.org/thank-anw-summer-interns/ All accessed 3 January 2018. The 3rd LA Project, a series of conversations about the future of the city moderated by Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, was begun in 2015. https://archpaper.com/2015/05/the-implementation-game/#.VUpHYtpViko, accessed 3 January 2018. Occidental’s Institute for the Study of Los Angeles was launched in 2017. http://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-me-los-angeles-scholarship-20170509-story.html, accessed 3 January 2018 Curriculum During Veitch’s tenure, Occidental has announced new programs in computer science, http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2017/10/17/computer-science-newest-major-campus/2889536, accessed 3 January 2018; media arts and culture, http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2016/03/01/mac-ahva-split-in-unanimous-vote/2875846 Accessed 3 January 2018; music production, http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2017/10/31/new-music-production-emphasis-make-occidental-soloist-symphony-collegiate-music-programs/2890107 Accessed 3 January 2017; and Black studies. http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2016/11/01/american-studies-professors-introduce-black-studies-minor/2878426, accessed 3 January 2018. Already home to one of the world’s largest collections of Mexican birds, housed in the Moore Lab of Zoology, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-moore-lab-of-zoology, accessed 3 January 2018; Occidental acquired the Cosman Shell Collection of more than 170,000 specimens in 2015. http://abc7.com/science/widower-donates-170000-sea-shells-to-occidental-college/863985/, Accessed 3 January 2017. The two collections will form the basis of a new environmental science program. https://www.oxy.edu/magazine/summer-2015/life-aquatic, accessed 3 January 2018 Diversity and access During Veitch’s tenure, Occidental has been identified as one of the country’s most economically diverse liberal arts colleges by the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/occidental-college, accessed 3 January 2018. In September 2017, Veitch announced the creation of the Barack Obama Scholars Program, a full-ride, four-year scholarship program aimed at exceptional students – with an emphasis on first-generation students, veterans, and community college transfers – who want to contribute to the public good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/26/new-occidental-college-scholarships-honor-its-most-famous-student-barack-obama/?utm_term=.5aa3d1737520, Accessed 3 January 2018 Academic facilities In June 2010, Veitch announced a $19 million renovation and expansion of Swan Hall, which houses faculty offices and classrooms. Source: http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2010/06/occidental-college-landmark-to-get-a-20-million-makeover/, accessed 3 January 2018. On the school's 125th anniversary in April 2012, Veitch announced that Occidental would be the recipient of a $5 million donation to renovate Johnson Hall, one of three original buildings on the campus. The result was the McKinnon Center for World Affairs, designed by architect Hagy Belzberg, that houses the college’s international, foreign language, and politics programs. Source: https://www.universitybusiness.com/article/mckinnon-center-global-affairs-occidental-college, accessed 3 January 2018. In April 2013, Veitch unveiled a 1-megawatt solar array on the Occidental campus, to generate a portion of the campus's energy supply. The innovative design of the array has been cited as a positive example for similar projects. Source: https://www.sgvtribune.com/2017/10/23/solar-panel-projects-at-mt-sac-occidental-inspired-years-of-protest-more-like-them-are-planned-across-socal/, accessed 3 January 2018. In April 2017, Veitch announced construction of a new aquatic center to replace Occidental’s 87-year-old Taylor Pool and the expansion of an existing tennis center. Source: https://www.theeastsiderla.com/2017/09/new-aquatic-center-to-replace-historic-taylor-pool-at-occidental-college/, accessed 3 January 2018 Fundraising Fundraising has increased under Veitch. Occidental raised a record $29.3 million in gifts and new pledges in 2014-15. Source: https://www.oxy.edu/news/oxy-sets-new-fundraising-record, accessed 3 January 2018 Outreach On his first anniversary at the college in August 2010, Veitch hosted a public forum for Los Angeles activists and local officials to discuss the city's environmental future. He also brought on Ella Turenne as the college's assistant dean of civic engagement. Together with other college presidents, Veitch has publicly supported the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program. Source: https://www.pomona.edu/news/2016/11/21-college-university-presidents-call-us-uphold-and-continue-daca, accessed 3 January 2018. Partnering with the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, he helped organize a March 2017 symposium that brought participants from more than 40 Southern California institutions to Occidental to consider how to respond to changes in immigration policy. Source: http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2017/03/09/occidental-hosts-southern-california-aiccu-symposium/2886185, accessed 3 January 2018 Personal life Remove the last sentence -- President Veitch no longer lives on campus.

Thanks for your help with this.

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After graduation, he traveled across the country for a year, working on a dairy farm in Nebraska, on a Mississippi tugboat, and loading fish in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  Not approved. ___________ Veitch was named dean of the New School’s Eugene Lang College in 2004. During his four years as dean, he was credited with expanding the ranks of the college’s full-time faculty, and creating new partnerships with New York cultural institutions and civic engagement programs.   Clarification needed. ___________ After a two-year consultative process initiated by Veitch, Occidental approved a new five-year strategic plan in 2012 that laid out such goals as greater engagement with Los Angeles; curricular innovation; diversity and access; fostering a cosmopolitan campus culture; and improving students’ living and learning environment. Approved. ___________ Veitch has overseen the cultivation of partnerships with local institutions such as the Huntington Library, the Autry Museum of the West, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and regional theaters including A Noise Within.   Clarification needed. ___________ The 3rd LA Project, a series of conversations about the future of the city moderated by Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, was begun in 2015. Occidental’s Institute for the Study of Los Angeles was launched in 2017.   Clarification needed. ___________ During Veitch’s tenure, Occidental announced began new programs in computer science, media arts and culture, music production, and Black studies. Approved. ___________ Already home to one of the world’s largest collections of Mexican birds, housed in the Moore Lab of Zoology, Occidental acquired the Cosman Shell Collection of more than 170,000 specimens in 2015. The two collections will form the basis of a new environmental science program.  Not approved. ___________ During Veitch’s tenure, Occidental has been identified as one of the country’s most economically diverse liberal arts colleges by the New York Times.  Not approved. ___________ In September 2017, Veitch announced the creation of the Barack Obama Scholars Program, a full-ride, four-year scholarship program aimed at exceptional students – with an emphasis on first-generation students, veterans, and community college transfers – who want to contribute to the public good. Approved. ___________ In June 2010, Veitch announced a $19 million renovation and expansion of Swan Hall, which houses faculty offices and classrooms. The result was the McKinnon Center for World Affairs, designed by architect Hagy Belzberg, that houses the college’s international, foreign language, and politics programs. In April 2013, Veitch unveiled a 1-megawatt solar array on the Occidental campus, to generate a portion of the campus's energy supply. The innovative design of the array has been cited as a positive example for similar projects. In April 2017, Veitch announced construction of a new aquatic center to replace Occidental’s 87-year-old Taylor Pool and the expansion of an existing tennis center.  Not approved. ___________ Fundraising has increased under Veitch. Occidental raised a record $29.3 million in gifts and new pledges in 2014-15.  Not approved. ___________ Together with other college presidents, Veitch has publicly supported the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program. Approved. ___________ Partnering with the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, he helped organize a March 2017 symposium that brought participants from more than 40 Southern California institutions to Occidental to consider how to respond to changes in immigration policy. Approved. ___________ Remove the last sentence -- President Veitch no longer lives on campus.  Unable to implement. ___________

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I'm User:Edgewood2048 and I work at Occidental College. As President Veitch has announced his decision to step down from the presidency in June 2020, it seems an appropriate time to propose some updates. I also am proposing some changes to the narrative structure of the Occidental College section in an attempt to provide a more logical flow. I continue to use the wiki bios of other liberal arts college presidents as a model; as before, I want to make sure that I follow WP:COI and gather as much consensus for these changes as possible. I'm posting my proposals here to solicit input.

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Changes/additions in bold. Jonathan Veitch (born 1959) is an American college administrator, author and former professor. He is the president of Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He became president in July 2009, succeeding interim president Robert Skotheim.[1] In January 2019, Veitch announced his decision to step down as president and return to teaching in June 2020. Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-occidental-college-prez-resign-20190127-story.html Veitch previously served as a professor at the University of Wisconsin and dean of The New School's Eugene Lang College.[2] He authored American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s in 1997.[3] Early Life and Education Jonathan Veitch was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father, John Veitch, was the president of Columbia Pictures' worldwide productions, and his step-grandfather was actor Alan Ladd.[2] Veitch attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles [specified for disambiguation: see https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Loyola#Secondary_schools] before he received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in English and American Literature. He later received his doctoral degree in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University.[1] Career In 1993, Veitch became an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin Press published his first book, American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s, in 1997. That same year, Veitch moved to New York and became an associate professor at The New School, teaching courses in cultural history, American history and American film pertaining to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[4] Veitch was named Dean of the New School’s Eugene Lang College in 2004. During his four years as dean, he was credited with helping to expand Lang’s student body and faculty and connecting the college with arts and social service organizations. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jan-31-me-oxy31-story.html He stepped down to become president of Occidental College in 2009.[4] Occidental College Veitch is the first president of Occidental College to be a native Angeleno, having been born in Los Angeles. He succeeded Robert Skotheim as the fifteenth president of the college on June 30, 2009.[2][5] After a two-year consultative process initiated by Veitch, Occidental approved a new five-year strategic plan in 2012 that laid out such goals as greater engagement with Los Angeles; curricular innovation; and fostering a cosmopolitan campus culture. Occidental subsequently worked to build partnerships with local cultural institutions such as the Getty Center, the Autry Museum of the American West, and the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-occidental-college-prez-resign-20190127-story.html Greater engagement with Los Angeles also led to the creation of the 3rd LA Project, a free-to-the-public event series that draws on a wide range of experts, activists and politicians to explore the city’s continuing evolution. Sources: http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2015/02/welcome_to_christopher_hawthor.php https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2016/04/21/lamcast-the-right-to-the-city/ During Veitch’s tenure, Occidental has announced new programs in computer science, new source: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-occidental-computer-science-20180313-story.html; media arts and culture, http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2016/03/01/mac-ahva-split-in-unanimous-vote/2875846 Accessed 3 January 2018; music production, http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2017/10/31/new-music-production-emphasis-make-occidental-soloist-symphony-collegiate-music-programs/2890107 Accessed 3 January 2017; and Black studies. http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2016/11/01/american-studies-professors-introduce-black-studies-minor/2878426, accessed 3 January 2018. In September 2017, Veitch announced the creation of the Barack Obama Scholars Program, a full-ride, four-year scholarship program aimed at exceptional students – with an emphasis on first-generation students, veterans, and community college transfers – who want to contribute to the public good. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/26/new-occidental-college-scholarships-honor-its-most-famous-student-barack-obama/?utm_term=.5aa3d1737520, Accessed 3 January 2018 During Veitch’s presidency, Occidental completed several major capital projects, including a $19 million renovation and expansion of Swan Hall, which houses faculty offices and classrooms, and an $11.5 million renovation of Johnson Hall to create the McKinnon Center for World Affairs that houses the college’s international, foreign language, and politics programs. Sources: https://www.theoccidentalnews.com/news/2016/01/01/swan-hall-certified-in-gold-level-environmental-efficiency/2883215, https://universitybusiness.com/mckinnon-center-for-global-affairs-at-occidental-college/?highlight=Occidental%20College, accessed 6 September 2019. In April 2013, Veitch unveiled a 1-megawatt solar array on the Occidental campus, to generate a portion of the campus's energy supply. Source: https://www.sgvtribune.com/2017/10/23/solar-panel-projects-at-mt-sac-occidental-inspired-years-of-protest-more-like-them-are-planned-across-socal/, accessed 3 January 2018. Fundraising and the college’s endowment have grown since 2009, the result of more active outreach to alumni. Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-occidental-college-prez-resign-20190127-story.html Applications also have increased, a result attributed in part to the visibility created by Occidental alumnus Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president in 2009. [Sources: https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-occidental-college-prez-resign-20190127-story.html, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jun-27-me-oxy27-story.html Veitch has publicly supported the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program. Source: https://www.pomona.edu/news/2016/11/21-college-university-presidents-call-us-uphold-and-continue-daca, accessed 3 January 2018. Working with the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, he helped organize a March 2017 symposium that brought participants from more than 40 Southern California institutions to Occidental to consider how to respond to changes in immigration policy. Source: http://www.theoccidentalweekly.com/news/2017/03/09/occidental-hosts-southern-california-aiccu-symposium/2886185, accessed 3 January 2018 Veitch and the college were criticized in 2013 over the handling of the Occidental College sexual assault controversy. After a three-year investigation, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights concluded in June 2016 that, except in the case of lack of promptness in three cases, Occidental was in compliance with Title IX. Sources: https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-occidental-sex-assault-20160609-snap-story.html https://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/title_IX/OCR_resolution_letter_pdf.PDF The college was again criticized in 2015 for not having done enough to address issues of racial injustice on campus. Occidental subsequently launched its Black studies major, hired a vice president for diversity and inclusion, and boosted funding for diversity programs. Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-occidental-college-prez-resign-20190127-story.html Personal life Veitch married Sarah Ann Baxter Kersh, the former director of international licensing and distribution for Calvin Klein, in December 1992. He lives in the Wallis Annenberg President’s House with his wife and their three children. [Delete this reference, as he moved off campus. Source: https://www.theoccidentalnews.com/news/2017/10/03/8-years-veitch-relocates-off-campus-residence/2889071

Thanks for your help with this. Edgewood2048 (talk) 00:08, 25 January 2020 (UTC)Edgewood20148

• @Jkfp2004: Thoughts? You and I laid a lot of the groundwork for this article pbp 02:18, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

There are some of these changes that I'm not a big fan of. They seem to be more about Occidental than Vietch himself. pbp 15:26, 25 January 2020 (UTC)