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Be it known that on the twenty-seventh day of February in the year 2025, a meeting took place at John Cabot University between the undersigned and Prof. Dr. Mary Merva, Vice President of Academics.

At that meeting, the said Vice President extended an offer of permanent teaching-only employment, a contract internally known as the “regime change.” Such offers, made broadly to former freelance lecturers irrespective of doctoral qualifications or research activity, were conditioned upon the signing of a conciliation report, a document serving in practice as a liability waiver for prior freelance service.

In my case, the offer was further conditioned upon the production of unpaid research publications sufficient to sustain the #accreditation standards of the AACSB for the University’s Business programme.

I did accept, unconditionally, the teaching-only appointment, but requested that any #research work be duly recognised and compensated. I was told that a formal reply would be issued by the Dean. No such reply was ever received.

In the months that followed, the University neither confirmed nor denied the content of the meeting of February 27, acknowledging only that it had taken place.

On July 31, 2025, a formal offer of teaching-only employment was reissued, incidentally one day after I addressed a letter to the Board of Trustees, transmitted through the University’s Chief of Staff. Said letter, publicly available at https://tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum remains officially unacknowledged to this day.

On August 6, 2025, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Stefano Arnone, Dean of Academics, I inquired whether the University’s conduct conformed to the standards of #Ethics and #Integrity upheld by both accrediting bodies: the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Vice President Merva responded that accrediting institutions “only issue suggestions and recommendations.”

When further questioned regarding the liabilities sought to be extinguished by the required conciliation report, the Vice President declined to answer.

On August 8, 2025, within the ten days allotted for consideration, President of John Cabot University, Dr. Franco Pavoncello rescinded the offer. The reason given was my formal objection to the inclusion among my contractual areas of specialisation of a field I have never taught nor been instructed in, namely, Quantitative Methods. This inclusion had been justified by reference to my having, as a freelance lecturer, taught Calculus for Business for two semesters, an assignment I subsequently categorically declined.

Thus stands the record.
Dr. Crina Pungulescu