As UNH faces heavy budget cuts, here are some areas it could easily trim (or even get rid of) and not only save money for UNH but save New Hampshire taxpayers millions. An added bonus from such cuts would be a decrease in State cover-ups of abuse of federal funds in cases relating to DCYF and the disturbing studies of New Hampshire’s children and young adults and their sex lives.
1) The University of New Hampshire “Prevention Innovation Research Center” and its “spinoff” “Soteria Solutions”.
UNH started its Prevention Innovation Research Center in 2006. Since then, it has received millions of federal dollars for “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training, which it markets under its spinoff, non-profit: “Soteria Solutions”.
Take a look at salaries for UNH Professors and then take a look at salaries for Soteria Solutions and you might wonder if there is some double dipping going on. Professor Jane Stapleton (Executive Director of Practice) and Professor Sharyn Potter (Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies) started Soteria Solutions, which was recognized for entrepreneurship using federal funds.
Startup Company Born Out of Federally-Funded Research at UNH Highlighted at Capitol Hill Showcase
Their profiles on the UNH website indicate that they are full time professors with offices and salaries paid for by UNH. Soteria Solutions IRS990 tax form reveals that Jane Stapleton receives a salary from that while the organization lists office rent as an expense.
In addition, a careful trawl on Researchgate through papers published by Sharyn Potter (who blocked my IP address from gaining access to her publicly funded research which is supposed to be available to the public) and Jane Stapleton reveal that they were publishing theses using the extremely flawed statistics of Dr David Lisak.
How an Influential Campus Rape Study Skewed the Debate
Lisak, has debunked his own claims on statistics of sexual assault but these professors at UNH never bothered to update their research materials. So much for “Peer reviewed” endorsements.
This is not a small oversight but one which has infected New Hampshire’s and the Nation’s legal system as well as school and college disciplinary systems. On the one hand you have UNH Prevention Innovation Research Center and its affiliates promoting false statistics using federal grants to do so. On the other you have unaffilated non-profit SAVE disputing the 2–10% theory of false accusations and putting the percentage at 40–50%. Where is Potter or Stapleton’s research into what the real statistics are? Statistics that don’t serve the narrative needed for UNH to get more grants and grow its campus rape “solution” business, get ignored.
PR: 40-50% of Campus Sexual Assault Allegations Are Unfounded, Revealing Need for Strong…PRESS
While New Hampshire law firms such as Shaheen & Gordon, Nixon Peabody, Douglas & Leonard and others have profited from the campus rape frenzy, taxpayers, school fee payers, students, teachers and professors have paid a heavy price — sometimes with their lives. Administration fees have skyrocketed to train biased investigators in “Start by Believing” and “Trauma informed” flawed practices.
CPI/SAVE Commends Dept. of Justice for Cessation of Funding for Dishonest ‘Start By Believing’
Professor David Bucci at Dartmouth College took his own life after being accused of knowing of sexual assault in his department at Dartmouth. He was named 31 times in a lawsuit against the college which yielded a juicy $4.9 million for Douglas & Leonard and their partner law firm, Sanford Heisler.
Rapuano v. Trustees of Dartmouth College 1:18-cv-01070 (D.N.H.) | Civil Rights Litigation…
The settlement yielded $500K for WISE — a division of the NHCADSV which is part and parcel and indivisible from UNH PIRC. The NHCADSV itself received a further undisclosed amount estimated to be above $2 million which it appears to have hidden from its financial records on IRS 990 returns. This amount was approved by Judge Landya McAfferty in 2020.
Sharyn Potter and Jane Stapleton’s research papers also reveal that they were creating marketing materials to make their propaganda look more realistic to the target demographic of students in schools and on campus.
They are at the very epicenter of creating the propaganda that has led students to no longer trust their colleges. UNH PIRC has used federal grants to create flawed and biased research for a flawed and biased product to be sold to private schools such as St. Paul’s School and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Student privacy concerns are another reason to get rid of UNH PIRC. They study students’ sexual behaviors which they then use for their research papers at a university that also harbors an Intelligence Agency Cyber Security training ground (at the UNH Center for Cybersecurity Leadership, Education and Overreach). This department advertises “National Security Intelligence Analysis” — “Guided by expert faculty and centering on contermporary case studies and experiential learning, our program helps you develop strong analysis skills to become an outstanding intelligence professional”. It’s all quite chilling.
It’s no wonder that New Hampshire has an aging population and finds it hard to attract young adults. Who would want to have the Stasi of UNH studying your sexual behavior and creating propaganda to target you so that it can get your school to cough up for its “solutions”?
Soteria Solutions shares a logo with Soterial Mutual Holdings which is registered in London and Luxembourg. It belongs to Steven Schwarzmann of Black Stone. Why would the two companies share the same logo and the same name? Are they related?
The NHCADSV, whose Executive Director is Lyn Schollett (also on the board of directors for Soteria Solutions), has been in the business of expanding since 2012 when it hired Brian Harlowe. Brian Harlowe has New Futures LLC upstairs from the NHCADSV. His organization is one of the lucky few to be recipients of NH Lottery money. We shouldn’t forget that Chuck Douglas of Douglas & Leonard and Chair of the Judicial Selection Committee, which can’t even vet judges for previous felonious conduct, is married to the Chair of the Lottery Commission. Chuck has done very well out of the campus sexual assault industry, filing claims based on flawed investigations and reaching out-of-court settlements. Sounds like a blackmail business to me.
They’ve all done very nicely off the grift for long enough. Time to investigate and probably drop UNH PIRC and its professors who have had far too much of a hold on New Hampshire, only to send the State into potential bankruptcy for following their policies in DV & SA. What are their policies? Well, apparently they include turning a blind eye and ignoring reports of sex abuse in the State’s Youth Detention Center and jails. I think UNH can find a far more efficient and productive way of using federal grants.
2) The Crimes Against Children Research Center. This has been around since 1978 and studies child abuse as well as crafting policy for the State and its employees. As we can see from the cover ups of child sex abuse at the Sununu Youth Detention Center, the return on the investment is a negative $400 million for the taxpayers who are funding the settlements from which Chuck Douglas, Nixon Peabody, Shaheen & Gordon are doing splendidly well with 33–40% of each settlement.
This department also created the research papers to lobby for the Children’s Advocacy Centers which are tied up to the NHCADSV and the NHPD. These centers are prosecution centers designed specifically to dupe children into speaking to single investigators who may well be dishonest or predators themselves.
As the following UNH CCRC research paper alarmingly states:
“A number of studies demonstrate that suggestive interviewing can lead to some, primarily younger, children to make misleading or false statements inadvertently.”
Not only can UNH easily cut its budget by getting rid of these two departments, but the safety, welfare, and happiness of New Hampshire’s families and children might significantly improve once they are no longer lab rats for this flawed grift of a business.
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