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Bloggie applauds this perspicacious observer:
"The administration is in a panic mode to implement controversial and irreversible structural and curricular changes campus-wide by early February fiscal plan deadlines with only the vaguest notions of their impacts. The plan is, according to an interview with a top administrator published in the most recent Independent Collegian, to cast out many seeds and "see what grows." This experimental garden, as most senators articulated in many different ways, seems a costly recipe for disaster. Utter madness. Stay tuned."
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Comment of the Week
"This is that old tension between the corporate way of doing things and the academic way of doing things. In the corporate world, you sweep everything under the rug to make your b.s. as shiny, pleasing to the nose, and profitable as possible. In the academic world, you operate with a higher moral standard. Veritas and all that."
Comment of the Week of August 13
Re UT academic posers and hypocrites:
Have their checks calculated in units of postmodern theoretical currency and issued in photocopied legal tender notes signed by Walter Benjamin with a photo of Karl Marx and a seal stamped “In Derrida We Trust”.
Comment of the Era
Wow! Ain't that something.
-Anonymous
Comment of the Week
Mention goes to the the anonymous commentator of Feb 7, who, regarding UT President Llloyd Jacob's "Investing in Faculty" letter, stated: "If we could use the same criteria for 'investing in administrators' we could cut most of those positions."
Comments to HLC
Make sure you address your comments to HLC to the email address listed below in the "Higher Learning Commission Wants to Know" post. This may be the only chance you have to be heard. Bloggie hears that UT administration has discussed giving faculty "training" so that faculty members know how to "properly" talk to the HLC folks. How's that for stacking the deck? Does everyone get a little script to read? Make sure you practice before a mirror at being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Comment of the Week!
Definitely, the Comment of the Week award goes to Anonymous 12:14 pm, Dec 3, under the "Higher Learning Commission Needs to Know" posting by Diogenes. Pithy and pointed!
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Independent Collegian Article on Dicey Administrative Spending
IC reporter Casey Cheap looks at bow ties, apartments and movie tickets purchased by UT administrators at university/public expense. See
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Letter and Petition from Foreign Languages Faculty Member
A couple weeks ago, at the beginning of summer break, we in the Department of Foreign Languages were informed that our secretary's position was being eliminated and that while she will not lose her job (she'll be transferred), that position is not to be filled. We apparently will be expected to do our own jobs plus what we can of the secretary's. That is clearly not acceptable, and so one of the steps we in FL are taking against it is an online petition now available for any who want to (including those who for whatever reason--not a registered Ohio voter, not a US citizen, etc.--cannot sign the petition against SB5), to read and sign.
I know not everyone on the blog will be interested in this; I'm not asking anyone who doesn't want to, to sign or even read the petition. I do think that there are many who would be interested and would want to sign it--if they knew about it.
It's scary to post this under my own name; I'm as afraid as anyone of repercussions. But this is simply too important to keep quiet on, and we have to do something! FL is not the first department that this has happened to, and it's almost certain not to be the last if we don't speak up in a way that the administration will hear us and in a way that makes clear that other people are seeing that it's going on.
Here's the link to the online petition:For those who can make it, there will also be an informational meeting--including lunch and petition-signing--next Friday, May 27 in FH 2420, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
I know not everyone on the blog will be interested in this; I'm not asking anyone who doesn't want to, to sign or even read the petition. I do think that there are many who would be interested and would want to sign it--if they knew about it.
It's scary to post this under my own name; I'm as afraid as anyone of repercussions. But this is simply too important to keep quiet on, and we have to do something! FL is not the first department that this has happened to, and it's almost certain not to be the last if we don't speak up in a way that the administration will hear us and in a way that makes clear that other people are seeing that it's going on.
Here's the link to the online petition:For those who can make it, there will also be an informational meeting--including lunch and petition-signing--next Friday, May 27 in FH 2420, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Katherine Best
Wave of the Future or Merely Sometime Later This Week?
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a deeply fascinating article called, "When to Dissolve a Faculty Senate." Apparently this is any time that it becomes "adversarial" to administration.
The online comments to the article are priceless.
Nemeth on Mammon in IC
David Nemeth's most recent tour-de-force
Professor Nemeth has another fabulous and timely article in the new and increasingly wonderful Independent Collegian. See http://www.independentcollegian.com/forum/the-kraken-attacks-1.2340091
Nemeth Does it Again
See the forum article in The Independent Collegian at:
Nemeth's New Article in Collegian
The Independent Collegian has run another of Professor Nemeth's fine and provocative articles in its latest edition. This one discusses the double-talk by mouthpieces for the current UT administration concerning the effects of and reasons behind so-called strategic reorganization. Make sure you get the latest version of Newspeak 5.1 if you want to decode what UT administrators are really saying.
UT Ranks 13th Nationally on Administrative Bloat
See Appendix B of the Administrative Bloat report posted on 8/28 for evidence, but UT now has a higher proportion of administrators to students than all but 12 public universities in America. President Jacobs has finally put University of Toledo in the top tier. With Strategic Organization he may be aiming for number one.
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Recent Letters from The Blade
Jacobs' arrogance is astonishing
Recently, President Lloyd Jacobs of the University of Toledo stated that bonuses were justified because his administrators "took all the risks."
As a professor at UT, I am outraged that President Jacobs claims that administrators take all of the risks. What risks do they take that the other faculty and staffs on campus do not?
Administrators are protected by state and federal employment laws and by their contracts.
When ex-President Vik Kapoor was terminated, he remained a professor with a salary near what he was paid as president.
As president emeritus, Dan Johnson retained a salary greater than his pay as president.
In the recent layoffs, exceptionally few administrators were terminated. It seems to me that low-level personnel at UT have far more risks because the greater proportion of the layoffs have come from their ranks. And they did not have continuing salaries.
President Jacobs' answer to questions on two occasions regarding relinquishing part of his bonus was to the effect that he earned his bonuses and what he did with them was his business.
Administrators do not risk their personal money in their duties: they use taxpayer money and funds collected through donations and grants to the university.
Administrators take home salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and then add bonuses for longevity and whatever else the president decides is fitting for their contracts.
However, the lower-level personnel have much lower salaries and no such bonuses. Where is the risk?
It seems to me that these bonuses are convoluted: The lower-level personnel are taking the greater risks with no bonuses while the administrators with very rewarding jobs with little risk receive large bonuses.
Am I missing something here?
WALTER W. OLSON,
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing
Engineering,
University of Toledo
It's the same old, same old at UT
I could hardly believe the arrogance of Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, president of the University of Toledo, when a reporter asked if he would be willing to forgo his bonus in light of the layoffs, raise in tuition, etc.
His comment was that he worked for it. Is that to say that the ones being laid off did not work for their pay?
All I can say is, business as usual at UT. Some things never change.
SANDY FLICK
Rose Acres Drive
UT also has checks, balances
In response to letter titled "Professors must focus on teaching," I would like to point out that the University of Toledo operates on the basis of shared governance.
This means that faculty members participate in the administration of the university.
A focus on teaching requires faculty to address administrative issues such as policies, procedures, and yes, finances, because these all affect classroom outcomes. A university with solid and equitable finances benefits everyone, including and especially the students. Just as the U.S. government is constituted to have checks and balances, so is our university government.
The UT-AAUP is one of those checks against UT administrators who most recently have displayed more concern for their own profit rather than a concern for the common good.
LINDA M. ROUILLARD,
Associate Professor
of French,
University of Toledo
Quote of the Year (so far)
The following is excerpted from the recent UT AAUP newsletter concerning the official university response to news of the bonus scandal:
. . . . Either Jacobs is misleading the media or he has misled the Board of Trustees. President Jacobs objected to "the general tone" of the UT-AAUP Newsletter. Many persons on this campus object to the "general tone" of the Jacobs Administration. During his tenure as President, he has introduced an administrative culture of fear and intimidation. . . . A point of logic must be raised here, with all respect to UT AAUP, the conclusions that President Jacobs has (1) misled the media and (2) the Board of Trustees are not mutually exclusive. Both would seem likely given his considerable talent at spinning "visions." |
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7 comments:
Looks to me like Lloyd is being sexist here.
Here's the most recent denunciation from the Crazy Anonymous Emailer that went to perhaps 50 people in at UT. Enjoy....
Dear David [Nemeth?]
Following the disgusting post of a condom referencing the provost last month, you've now added (under your alias as Diogenes) to that sexist slander referring to the women leading discussions about a new university organizational structure: http://ascforum.blogspot.com/2010/06/les-femmes-nikitas.html
In discussing a legitimate topic about the make-up of this committee, you compare these women to sexually objects, linking to a Web site that shows women as assassins in tight, black micro dresses and high heels. While I am no longer surprised by the disregard you and your colleagues Brian Patrick, David Tucker and others display toward women and minorities, I feel it is my responsibility to let members of the UT community know that your sexist, racist attitudes are still proudly on display.
The women you're referring to as assassins are exercising leadership, which may make you uncomfortable. But women have been leaders for quite some time now. Maybe its time to accept that even if you are more comfortable thinking of us all as prostitute-look-alikes. Your recent post highlights a trend that clearly indicates you and your colleagues see women as objects to be sexualized or derided based on their sexuality.
We need no more posts about condoms "for her pleasure" or sexualized fantasies. Naturally it's also offensive that you choose to refer to these women offering themselves up for leadership as assassins, seeking to murder the university. These women clearly care a great deal for this campus and don't need to be denigrated by you under a cowardly alias.
Once again, you take an issue worthy of question and discussion and destroy further intellectual discussion because of your childish erotica fantasies.
I'd ask you to remove the post and keep future fantasies and misogyny to yourself.
I think that Lloyd's obviously sexist decision to put only women on the hand-picked committee of twelve was inadvertent--the same way he makes all of his decisions.
Lloyd is saying "get the job done" but Lloyd is THINKING "push this baby through!" This must be the Llogic of the compsition of his committee.
Re Crazy Anonymous Emailer:
Once again we have the pot calling the kettle black
Like fire and brimstone preachers, who are inevitably the ones who get caught stealing and whoring, those who squeal the loudest about sexism, racism, etc. are invariably the ones who are themselves filled with the most virulent sexist and racist resentment (Gloria Steinem, Henry Louis Gates, et al.).
These are the “progressive” people, the ones who in the name of scholarship and social justice have perpetuated countless outrageous and exceedingly corrosive lies – lies that have been absorbed into the popular culture as truth (i.e., “all men are rapists,” “all women have been raped,” Newton’s Principia Mathematica was nothing more than a patriarchal “rape manual,” a black man raping a white woman is a “reasonable act of political defiance,” “western civilization is a plague upon the Earth,” “all white people are devils…” ad infinitum, ad nauseum – e.g. Andrea Dworkin, Bell Hooks, Cornel West, Carol Gilligan, Homi Bhaba, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, et al.).
For a concise chronicling of some of these intellectual atrocities see the works of David Horowitz ( Tammy Bruce and Roger Kimball.
The average feminist or race activist doesn’t have a clue about the true origins or motivations behind any of these insidious agendas.
They simply like the idea of having someone to blame for their personal and/or professional frustrations – enjoy conforming and fitting in and having any reason at all to find personal validation and solidarity in being righteous and outraged about something – and relish the possibility of getting something for nothing (like maybe a brilliant pseudo-academic career entitlement).
But the rest of us are the real chumps in all this. We are the ones who out of a sense of guilt and misguided sentiments have freely enabled these thugs for decades and continue to enable them, to our own great detriment and the detriment of the greater good.
Most of us don’t have a clue about the history and ideology behind any of this stuff either – that’s why we’re so gullible – and that’s why many of us naively count ourselves in among the thugs, wrongly believing we’re actually in with the good guys.
Now, largely because of our own ignorance and weak-willed appeasement, even the academy, which of all places should be the epitome of reason, rationality, excellence, civility and intellectual and moral integrity, has instead long since become a toxic cesspool of politically correct groupthink mediocrity, vitriol, irrationality and entitlement.
"epitome of reason, rationality, excellence, civility and intellectual and moral integrity"
I see none of these virtues espoused in this blog. I see hate and vitriol and ignorance and pettiness. I'm just waiting for someone to make a joke here about Nina's medical issues. Cause that's what you guys do.
The Seven Buzzwords words you need to learn in order to earn a PhD in Marxist-Feminist-Postmodern Theory:
Fascist, Sexist, Racist, Patriarchal, Logocentric, Hate, Yo-momma.
BTW – The folks responsible for posting the above referenced condom, the Caesar the Goat comic strips etc. missed their true calling as postmodern artists.
If any of this stuff had appeared in a contemporary art show or countercultural publication (appropriately contextualized, politicized and labeled “George W. Bush,” or “Jesus Christ,” or “Sarah Palin” of course) these guys would be hailed as “transgressive” artistic geniuses, on par with Damien Hirst & Co.
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