Former international graduate student files suit against ISU
- By Debbie Bryce For the Idaho State Journal
- Updated18 hrs ago
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The case was filed in U.S. District Court last month on behalf of Jun Yu.
Yu is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, but he lived in Pocatello from August of 2008 through late June of 2012.
In 2008, Yu was accepted into ISU’s graduate program seeking to obtain a doctorate in clinical psychology. During Yu’s fourth year in the program, John Landers was his supervisor for the fall 2011 PSYC 7748 Clinical Externship class at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
The externship was not a required course, but Yu was recommended by the CTC to the externship to gain experience “critical for students to compete for national internships,” according to the complaint.
According to the contract, the externship was planned to last for one year.
But just two months into the externship, Landers dismissed Yu from the externship, alleging that Yu was “unable to grasp the communication nuances.” This was despite Yu meeting the English proficiency standards for admission at the university.
Yu received no prior, specific feedback regarding alleged areas of concern or remediation. Landers wrote that “this site could not afford to engage in remediation efforts” and he acknowledged that “daily feedback may have been too indirect.”
“I have consistently observed that Jun Yu is unable to grasp the communication nuances that are required to build rapport with difficult patients, administer standardized tests with difficult patients,” Landers wrote. “Given his desire to return to China and specialize in parent/child training, he is probably right where he needs to be in this regard. However, his deficits have made this practicum one that was not a good fit and placed him, patients, and psychology services at the hospital in a difficult position.”
According to the complaint filed by Ronaldo A. Coulter, an attorney with Idaho Employment Law Solutions, Yu completed English courses at ISU and even taught courses in English.
He also successfully presented and defended his dissertation, “A Clinical Trial of Behavioral Family Therapy in China” and the Clinical Training Committee reported that his academic and professional progress was satisfactory.
According to the complaint, Mark Roberts, director of Clinical Training at ISU, said “For all we knew things were going along swimmingly. So we were surprised when I got a phone call, and then a subsequent documentation (the dismissal letter) from Landers that Landers was going to dismiss him, and that that was not a choice.”
The complaint alleges that as a result of the unlawful discharge, Yu suffered the loss of an opportunity to gain an education in the field of his choice in a publicly funded university.
Yu also suffered the loss of a doctorate degree despite successfully defending his dissertation.
He is asking for readmission to the graduate program at ISU or to be able to complete the remaining practicums in the People’s Republic of China.
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Former clinical psych PhD student suing Idaho State University
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