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Friday, June 25, 2010

Faculty Senate Performance Review of Provost/Chancellor Gold Part 1 of 2, Summary Statistics

Here is Part 1 of the Faculty Senate Performance Review of Provost Gold, containing the front matter of the report. Part two containing the comment sections is presented in the next post below this one:





10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've already sent this to Inside Higher Ed which has shown they understand the danger of this regime to UT.

Anonymous said...

Today, I ask my Chair "what would happen if I received ratings like this from students on end of course evaluations?"

His answer was that I would first receive a "Special Assessment" and if I did not improve drastically, I would be subject to firing.

So UT is "Different strokes for different folks."

Anonymous said...

Is it too much to ask that he honorably fall on his sword?

Anonymous said...

You guys are insane. Gold just got a new title and a raise and you're asking him to fall on his sword cause the vp for health affairs focuses too much on medicine? You guys are not paying attention to the real world around you, and until you do, you're fighting this war blind, tied down and without weapons. And Jacobs et al will continue to wax the floor with you and get "100 percent support" from the only people who matter.

The Governor is coming to campus on Wednesday to thank Jacobs for UT's focus on solar energy and economic development. The Chancellor asked universities to focus on economic development in the state's strategic plan. Trustees back him. And voters, especially in Ohio, see professors as people to be at best tolerated. You are only talking to each other and until you find a way to talk to these other groups of people, you'll continue to only talk to each other.

Anonymous said...

Anon 6:20 you are probably correct in much of what you say but I believe it is you and the administration that hold the faculty in contempt not the public at large. And yes, as long as the administration says what the governor wants to hear and make a nice show, then sure they will receive support. However, it is a big gamble that the leaders are making and if they fail it will be very bad. I think it is really hard to concentrate that much power and not have it end in disaster...it usually does. The administration and board may get their way by running rough-shod over faculty but there will probably be many negative unintended consequences that occur and much resentment.

Also, it is obvious to me, but probably not many others that it is this very type of thinking that the leadership is espousing that got our nation into a hole. Not much good will come of this, I am certain. Just like in the past the board, and the administration will walk away from the mess they created but the public, the students, faculty and staff will have to pick up the pieces.

Anonymous said...

"The Governor is coming to campus on Wednesday to thank Jacobs for UT's focus on solar energy and economic development."

Stickland is thanking Jacobs, who probably can't even pronounce "photovoltaic device," let alone build one, for this?

Figures.

yo, duh! said...
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Anonymous said...

Were photovoltaics used in the recent refurbishing of UT's own Memorial Field House--or are they being used in any of the construction / remodeling going on at UT now? If not, why not?

Anonymous said...

Were photovoltaics used in the recent refurbishing of UT's own Memorial Field House--or are they being used in any of the construction / remodeling going on at UT now? If not, why not?

Anonymous said...

Wow. Those faculty on the Health Science Campus are so negative.

This survey was limited to those faculty who work in those colleges that fall under the purview of Jeff Gold. So you can't just blame these results on those nasty negative faculty on the main campus.

Perhaps it has more to do with the administration if there are concerns on both campuses. Or are all evaluations just "silly"?