Jim Keeshen's Profile
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James Keeshen is a full-time
professor of computer animation at Santa Monica College's
Academy of Entertainment and Technology. However, Jim
Keeshen used his company, Jim Keeshen Productions, to
employ AET students as cheap slave labor for his own
financial gain in his commercial projects.
Why did SMC help him to doctor internship and hire records?
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Jim Keeshen Productions
Through his companies, Jim Keeshen
Productions and Studio
Animatics, Jim Keeshen recruited both students and faculty
to the AET program for his own bidding while outsourcing animation
work to Korea for his Day of the Dead animated short. Why did SMC
allow him to use the school for his own self-serving purposes?
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Jim Keeshen's Questionable Ethics
As a professor, Jim Keeshen was under a duty to adhere to
SMC's faculty ethics and anti-discrimination and
anti-harassment policies. Despite this obligation, Keeshen
engaged in copyright theft, retaliation, discrimination, and harassment. On
March 1, 2006, he threatened to come after his students and have them
kicked out of school.
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Jim Keeshen's Wheeling & Dealing
Not only did Jim Keeshen employ those at AET as his cheap
labor force, he made financial deals with the program's
industry partners. Additonally, he pocketed approximately
$83,000 via secret consulting contracts for a multi-language
CD-ROM that teaches one how to ask directions to the restroom.
What's the cost to the taxpayer?
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Straight From the Horse's Mouth
In August 2005, Jim Keeshen admitted that he was merely using
Santa Monica College to finish his Day of the Dead animated short.
He referred to AET as a vortex. He held
contempt for both those he worked with as well as his students. Read
some of his comments as well as those spoken about him. Also, see
his threats to his students.
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Drive-By Litigation
Jim Keeshen has sued several people. His biggest lawsuit was
against Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and 20th Century
Fox. Keeshen has also forced SMC to expend considerable legal
funds due to his tortious behavior. Why does the school
continue to bankroll Keeshen's legal defense? Is it that SMC
has ratified and encouraged his behavior?
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eBay Shopping Extravaganza
Jim Keeshen found endless excuses to avoid paying his hard-working
students. He cried dire poverty, claiming he was unable
to pay his rent or money owed to the IRS. Yet, under the eBay
handle of planemania, Keeshen spent
the last eighteen months on an all out online shopping spree,
buying model airplanes and Nazi paraphernalia.
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