by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 18, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Shortly before the Easter weekend, the State Department quietly published a partial breakdown of 2015 diversity statistics on its website. This endeavor was apparently only done at the prodding of a senior Senator. Except for data covering...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 26, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis What ever happened to the professional American diplomat? Or can the world’s second oldest profession even still be considered a profession in these United States? Is the State Department, the country’s oldest cabinet department which is tasked...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 23, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Nearly three years ago – July 22, 2011 to be exact – I described my dismay at the continuing lack of women in the senior career ranks of the State Department in a WV post entitled “Still an Man’s World: the State Department’s...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis This is the fifth in a series of posts about Joan Wadelton, a veteran Foreign Service officer fired last year for blowing the whistle on longstanding corruption in the State Department’s Human Resources Bureau. Here are links to the first four:...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Today’s Post: Round 4 It’s been just over a month since I last wrote about Joan Wadelton’s ongoing battle with the State Department’s Bureau of Human Resources. Since then her struggle against the department’s “cover-up at any cost” has...