Greetings-

During the month of March 2023, the University of Wisconsin reopened my complaint for hate/bias in the veterans lounge at their Whitewater campus. A 48-page confidential exhibit and complaint amendment created the first linear document for reporting a hostile learning environment.

The exhibit was a rhetorical analysis excerpt from the convergent media studies submission for the independent study 498 course during the fall 2022 semester, which was an appendix to the Autumn Landmine Productions business plan.

The exhibit documented the university’s retaliation for filing a complaint. The university libeled me on several counts and have handed the exhibit over to the Dept. of Education for review.

On March 15, 2022, I set out on a journey to unearth the barriers for veteran and service member success at the Whitewater campus. I have been working hard to stay focused after receiving backlash for doing so.

With that being said, I am going to keep this brief. The proctoring professor of my Madison College honors project went beyond the scope of her role as the oversight. She deceived me into signing a contract that had an informal ad infinitum clause stating I could turn in late work and improve the grade and that “I cannot modify the paper.”

The variables of the honors project survey the barriers and facilitators for success. I am eliminating the success variable and focusing solely on one term.

The veteran college experience deals with attrition and social isolation. The rewrite is an excerpt from the next phase, which is the writing of a survival manual for veterans and service members believing the lie their nation told them at the recruiting station.

The lie: You can go back to school and use your G.I. benefits without hassle.

I am announcing today I am trademarking under the Outpost 422 linear writing style a term I will be referring to as “Vet-quity,” which is the disenfranchisement of veterans and service members in the classroom who deal with lowball grades and micro assaults when writing papers and participating in person.

This happened to me frequently at the Whitewater campus. We need to make this stop. “Vet-quity” is a call for revitalization or a total boycott of using veteran benefits and a walkout from university attendance. We deserve buy in. We deserve a quality education. We do not deserve to be loathed for our service.

Please fill out the contact form if you are dealing with academic abuse and come forward and share your story here. You deserve respect for using your G.I. benefits. Not the “non-traditional” beratement we receive. We are one.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bradley J. Burt

CEO-Outpost 422

Are you a veteran who transferred from Madison College and is a new student attending the University of Wisconsin?

One thing student veterans must do before meeting with their advisor is receive intel about how to avoid a horrible classroom learning experience. Facing a hostile learning environment can cost you your G.I. benefits.

Visit ratemyprofessors.com and look up course reviews from colleagues who have navigated the experience.

Burt, Bradley J

To:

• info@wisconsin.gov;
• Student Senate;
• Bakken, Turina R

Thu 2/9/2023 9:33 AM

Dear Gov. Tony Evers-

I have been attempting to write you a literature review regarding the barriers and facilitators for success with veterans and servicemembers attending post-secondary education. I am writing to you today notifying you I am being ignored and denied the opportunity to write the paper due to the professor’s unethical side deals and abandonment of the project. I have notified my Student Senate president who cc:d two candidates in an email addressing my request to file a grievance. Under Wisconsin state shared governance procedures, I am required to notify Student Senate first who has not responded. I am notifying you I am going to the board of regents.

I am rolling everything into my Dept. of Education complaint between Madison College and UW Whitewater you have been made aware of. I need your assistance and would like an opportunity to sit down with you and create a strategy that excuses you from the sabotaging of my honors project. Please contact me at your earliest convenience. I have cc:d my VA social worker for record keeping and complaint tracking with the VA records division. The project is a mess and I need to restore order. I also notified Dr. Jack Daniels III regarding my situation and cc:d Denise Rohan who understands the development of the project, which started when I was the American Legion Dane County Council service officer. I am writing to you today admonishing the behavior of the university and am seeking to excuse you from any liability.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bradley J. Burt

CEO-Outpost 422

The spring 2023 semester begins Monday Jan. 23, which includes a one-credit elective. Prof. Michael Boudreau, program instructor, requires a workout plan for students.

The work out plan weekly journal will publish blogs for those seeking motivation with going back to the gym and finding their center through mindfulness. The project utilizes a self-reflection model from a final project in COMM 228 Interpersonal Communication, which helps uncover stuck points and a weekly motivation video.

The project goal seeks building a platform based on a low-intensity aerobic workout soldiers used with the 10th Mountain Division. The project incorporates strategies provided by the Madison College Mastering Mindfulness Course for savoring, confidence building, before-and-after reflection and gratitude.

Boudreau supports veterans whose family’s legacy of service dates back to the Civil War.

Collaboratively, the blogs offer empowerment and affirmations with only one goal in mind—making it to the gym. Each reflection for the class project will track mental, physical and spiritual health.

The project minimum requirement is a visit to the gym twice per week.

Collectively, the project offers a starting point and a confidence boost for all who are stuck in the trap of depression a way out through enlightenment and encouragement.

9:13 a.m. Thursday 1/12/2023—Today kicks off writing the “I Will Not Forget” college experience diary. The diary examines the barriers with my academic success transferring from Madison College to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The diary will eventually publish into a book, which acts as an advocacy for those who awaken to being mistreated on campus as disabled veterans, first generation and nontraditional students. The Outpost 422 website is a sanctuary of support.

The diary style examines variables from the COMM 228 Interpersonal Communication course where my class journaled for two weeks regarding the pandemic lockdown experience for our final project. Outpost 422 covered the pandemic events for class projects that launched as a registered trademark.

Outpost 422 is my website created for the Madison College Journalism Certificate Social Media Writing course and the Madison College Challenge that developed into a documentary pilot for the Practicum 2 internship. The website was built for helping future veterans and their enrollment in the Madison College VITAL program after leaving treatment.

Sadly, you, the disabled veteran Madison College VITAL transfer, will meet aggressors who do not respect your service. They will conspire to place barriers in your path. Not all professors are friendly. The website is a relay in times of adversity.

The book and the website empower users as a philanthropy and attrition mitigation service. In other words, the tools that helped me succeed will help you succeed, and we will succeed together. We must dedicate our lives to three things: Helping each other up, publishing the POW MIA issue and keeping our campus community safe. We are a guardian angel task force.

Diary is philanthropy that does not necessarily require money but self-investment and dedication to paying forward. The book and website pay forward resources and referrals on several fronts. As a philanthropy, we lobby, we fight, we conquer academic abuse, we give freely of our wisdom for the preservation of our POW MIA and Gold Star Mother societies helping their families distribute their grief through our publications. Through our perseverance, we empower one another.

The variables we experience shall never be met with adversity. We fight by investing argumentation strategy through peer-reviewed scholarly sources. We use our academics for self-defense. We enlighten through mindfulness, which requires staying calm, cool and collected and dispelling the stigma of having a disability. We overcome impossibility through exercising our G.I. Bill and grant resources and pay the information forward as a relay of support.

We check in with each other through email and in person consultations. We are a relay to many governmental and veteran friendly corporations who seek building platforms for our success. We are the Sacred Warrior Search and Rescue Foundation. Our primary job as a task force seeks team building as a resource for beating attrition and succeeding by crossing the graduation stage.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bradley J. Burt

CEO/Founder Outpost 422

January 11, 2023

Dear Mr. Burt,

 

Thank you for contacting my office over the last year. I value your outreach and appreciate you taking the time to express your thoughts.

One of the aspects that I value most as a Member of Congress is hearing directly from my constituents regarding their hopes, concerns, opinions, and ideas. I’m incredibly proud to represent such a diverse and engaged district, and the countless emails, letters, and calls from Wisconsin’s Second District give me hope for the road ahead.

Over the past year, I continued my tenure on the House Appropriations Committee where I fought for funding that enables communities across Wisconsin and the nation to succeed, and I was honored to serve again on the Education and Labor Committee where I strove to be a voice for all working Wisconsinites. Additionally, as Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, I championed legislation that put people over politics, including significant investments in climate change solutions, lowering prescription drug costs, and promoting economic and job growth.

It is an honor and privilege to represent you in Washington, and I strongly believe that communication between constituents and their elected representatives is essential to a successful democratic process. In 2023, I am committed to continuing to serve our community in hopes that we can continue to make great progress together.

Again, thank you for taking the time to reach out to me. If I can be of further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact me at (608) 258-9800. If you would like to receive regular updates from me on congressional issues, please visit my website at https://pocan.house.gov,  or follow me on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/repmarkpocan) and Twitter (@RepMarkPocan).

Sincerely,

Mark Pocan
Member of Congress

    
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